French nobleman exiled by their violent revolution; he becomes a shopkeeper in Templeton (chapter 4, page 47) Major Frederick "Fritz" Hartmann - A German settler in the area and regular visitor to the Judge's house (chapter 4, page 48) The Reverend Mr. Grant - An Episcopal minister (chapter 4, page 48) (The Episcopal Church was established in the United States after the Revolution, replacing the Anglican Church, which had been the established church in the South Ben Pump, aka Mr. Pump, aka Benjamin Penguillan - A servant to the Judge, and a former seaman who doesn't know how to swim (chapter 5, page 60) Remarkable Pettibone - Housekeeper to the Judge (chapter 5, page 62) Old Brave - The Temples' faithful dog. Dr. Elnathan Todd - The town doctor (chapter 6, page 71) Indian John, aka John Mohegan, aka Chingachgook - considered the last of the Mohicans and Natty's faithful companion (chapter 7, page 85) Oliver Edwards, aka Young Eagle - The young hunter and friend to Natty and Indian John (chapter 3, page 38) Captain and Mrs. Hollister - Owners of the inn, The Bold Dragoon Squire Chester Lippet - a lawyer who talks too much Louisa Grant - The daughter of Mr. Grant, companion to Elizabeth, and a possible love interest for Oliver Effingham Billy Kirby - A lumberjack and crack-shot with a rifle (chapter 17, page 190) Squire Van der School - The "honest" lawyer of Judge Marmaduke (chapter 25, page 277) Jotham Riddle - A lazy fellow appointed as a magistrate by Sheriff Jones Sir Oliver Effingham - British aristocrat References Further reading Max Cavitch. "Introduction." The Pioneers. New York: Signet Classics, 2007. v-xii. Wayne Franklin. The New World of James Fenimore Cooper. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. Thomas Hallock. From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. H. Daniel Peck. A World by Itself: The Pastoral Moment in Cooper's Fiction. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. Thomas Philbrick. Cooper's Pioneers: Origins and Structure. PMLA 79 (December 1964): 579-93 Donald A. Ringe. "Introduction." The Pioneers. New York: Penguin, 1988. Alan Taylor. William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic. New York: Vintage, 1996. External links Cooper's Otsego Heritage: The Sources of "The Pioneers" , from a talk by James H. Pickering, 1979, Oneonta University