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The nickname of Natty Bumpo (q.v.), in Cooper’s novel, called The Pioneers. A half-savage and half-Christian hero of American wild life.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.