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Show 56 a Indians the are Both of civilization. high degree beaqs ideals of the ir types, who symbolize the 'whole phase of less realistic. than . "mythical in which. the savages' aborigines"tl2 f Le sh-cand-B'Lood copies 'of history Cooper; s Indians, May; s Like pairs'of frontiersmen and 9hingachgook, Who not were but'May's remains' hero.les7 ,,11 type flourished. "recognizable Winnetou is far Indian--unlike an Winnetou" who reads, writes,. and possesses all of the virtues' of a European-bred gentleman. opposite direction . as a man from ot'May's but always May respec rs his Winnetou remains divorced his sees "noble re.ality never savage" of the, be ac- seen .as an Apache, ground his stories'in fact, to from·the savagery of his red brothers. Indians only insofar as they adapt themselves· The Chateaubriand savage to in May receives grudging respect. there· But and is. in successful attempt his European standards. but and Chateaubriand, possessing the' sophistication. and education'. educated European. in,spite May swings his Indians into the far May. One' of are some even closer May's Indian, heroes (Falkenauge), and, as has been is relationships between Cooper actually named "Hawkeye" mentioned, Bumppo t becomes Winnetou' sll SilberbUchse]'. and Shatterhand' s Unlike the-more recent dime novel and the Western romance,. the Lone Ranger and T0nto "Killdeer" s "'BMrent8ter." teu-gal.Ion-he roe a-of ecepted, May's heroes, like Cooper's, have direct contact with the Indian and make not . , a: real attempt to understand the, redskin merely as one of a 'mass of wildly painted as an individual, savages attacking a wagon '. train. and larren S. Walker, James ,Fenimore Cooper (New York: Noble, Ioe., 1962), p 32. , 46. Barnes |
