<Li> General Marquis de Montcalm--the French commander - in - chief, called by the Huron and other Indian allies of the French as "The great white father of the Canadas ." </Li> <Li> Tamenund--An ancient, wise, and revered Delaware (Lenape) sage, who has outlived three generations of warriors . </Li> <P> According to Susan Fenimore Cooper, the author's eldest daughter, Cooper first conceived the idea for the book while visiting the Adirondack Mountains in 1825 with a party of English gentlemen . The party passed through the Catskills, an area with which Cooper was already familiar, and about which he had written in his first novel featuring Natty: The Pioneers . They passed on to Lake George and Glens Falls . </P> <P> Impressed with the caves behind the falls, one member of the party suggested that "here was the very scene for a romance ." Susan Cooper says that Edward Smith - Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, made this remark . Cooper promised Stanley "that a book should actually be written, in which these caves should have a place; the, idea of a romance essentially Indian in character then first suggesting itself to his mind ." </P>

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