Vanderbilt and the Yeggman. Vipers. Vigor, the Hammersmith wonder.

I read The Deerslayer about ten years ago without noticing the logical inconsistencies that Mark Twain identifies so cogently. I did find the reported speech to be clumsy but I confess that I ascribed that to the style prevailing in that time and place. Twain's attack casts doubt on this although he was just six years old at the publication of Cooper's novel. Forty years and hundreds of miles may account for the difference of language but I imagine otherwise.