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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Videos: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message Icon:                             Message: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by RedFraggle[/i] [br]I've been working on reading through Cooper's Leatherstocking series, partly for fun, partly because I'm interested in the "biography" of Natty Bumppo (aka Hawkeye) over the course of the series. I recently started [i]The Pioneers[/i], and was surprised to find a (rare!) detailed physical description of our hero . . . well, in his original, intended form, anyway. Take a look at how Cooper envisioned him. For the record, this is Natty in 1793, long after the saga at Ft. Wm. Henry: [font=Times New Roman]"He was tall and so meager as to make him seem above even the six feet that he actually stood in his stockings. On his head, which was covered with lank, sandy hair, he wore a cap made of foxskin. . . . His face was skinny and thin almost to emaciation; but it yet bore no signs of disease---on the contrary, it had every indication of the most robust and enduring health. The cold and the exposure had, together, given it a color of uniform red. His gray eyes were glancing under a pair of shaggy brows that overhung them in long hairs of gray mingled with their natural hue; his scraggy neck was bare and burnt to the same tint with his face. . . ."[/font=Times New Roman] He is also described as having a "huge" mouth that shows off a single, yellow tooth when he opens it to laugh. Not much of a romantic lead, eh? And certainly no DDL! [:D] [/quote]    Upload an Image File From Your PC For Insertion in Your Post    -  HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.