Paul Davis On Crime: The Last of the Mohicans

I read and enjoyed James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, his 826 novel about the French and Indian war, when I was a kid.

I also loved Michael Mann's 1992 film version, Last of the Mohicans, which starred Daniel Day-Lewis. I've watched the film several times.

I especially loved the theme music, which played very well during the final mountain pass fight.

You can listen to the music via the below link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvYuNfCLRio

You can watch the final scene via the below link:

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=last+of+the+mohicans+final+fight&&view=detail&mid=7DECF3A0D4C1F3A4C7CA7DECF3A0D4C1F3A4C7CA&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dlast%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bmohicans%2Bfinal%2Bfight%26FORM%3DHDRSC3

As History.com notes, on this day in 1826 James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans was published.

You can read about Cooper and the classic novel via the below link:

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-last-of-the-mohicans-is-published?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2017-0204-02042017&om_rid=de5e4076c942a595dbda53f758321d197499484f6d117f61b6ac5c08e0d6f0aa&om_mid=145171234&kx_EmailCampaignID=9670&kx_EmailCampaignName=email-hist-tdih-2017-0204-02042017&kx_EmailRecipientID=de5e4076c942a595dbda53f758321d197499484f6d117f61b6ac5c08e0d6f0aa

Note: I read The Last of the Mohicans when I was a kid and I reread the novel after I saw Michael Mann's great film version of Cooper's story. (The film and novel are different, but I like both).

I also like Cooper's early novel, The Spy.

Paul Davis

Paul Davis is a writer who covers crime. He has written extensively about organized crime, cybercrime, street crime, white collar crime, crime fiction, crime prevention, the military, espionage and terrorism. He is a contributor to the Washington Examiner, and his work has also appeared in the Washington Times, the Philadelphia Daily News, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Weekly and other publications. His 'Crime Beat' column, which covers crime news, crime issues and crime prevention in South Philadelphia, appears weekly in the South Philly Review, and his 'On Crime' column, which covers crime in the Greater Philadelphia region, appears weekly at Philly Daily and Broad and Liberty. He is also a longtime contributor to Counterterrorism magazine and writes their online 'Threatcon' column, which covers crime, espionage and terrorism. Paul Davis' crime fiction appears in American Crime Magazine. As a writer, he has attended police academy training, gone out on patrol with police officers, accompanied detectives as they worked cases, accompanied narcotics officers on drug raids, observed criminal court proceedings, visited jails and prisons, and covered street riots, mob wars and murder investigations. He has interviewed police commissioners and chiefs, FBI, DEA, HSI and other federal special agents, prosecutors, judges, public officials, WWII UDT frogmen, Navy SEALs, Army Delta operators, Israeli commandos, military intelligence officers, Scotland Yard detectives, CIA officers, former KGB officers, film and TV actors, film writers, directors and producers, journalists, novelists and true crime authors, gamblers, outlaw bikers, and Cosa Nostra organized crime bosses. Paul Davis has been a student of crime since he was a 12-year-old aspiring writer growing up in South Philadelphia. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy when he was 17 in 1970. He served aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk during the Vietnam War and he later served two years aboard the Navy harbor tugboat U.S.S. Saugus at the U.S. floating nuclear submarine base at Holy Loch, Scotland. He went on to become the civilian administrative officer of a Defense Department command in Philadelphia, where he oversaw security, safety and other programs for the command's military and civilian employees, and served as an investigating officer, while working part-time as a newspaper crime reporter and columnist. He retired in 2007 after more than 37 Navy/DOD years of service and became a full-time writer. From 1991 to 2005 he was a producer and on-air host of "Inside Government," a public affairs interview radio program that aired on Sunday mornings on WPEN AM and WMGK FM in the Philadelphia area. You can read Paul Davis' crime columns, crime fiction, book reviews and news and feature articles on this website. You can read his full bio by clicking on the above photo (by Brittany Davis-Pearson). And you can contact Paul Davis at pauldavisoncrime@aol.com.

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