When Cooper's most memorable hero, Leatherstocking, started an American tradition by setting off into the sunset inΒ *The Pioneers*, one early reader said of his departure, "I longed to go with him."Β American readers couldn't get enough of the Leatherstocking saga (collected inΒ two Library of Amer
The Leatherstocking Tales II
β Scribed by Cooper, James Fenimore
- Book ID
- 109937103
- Publisher
- Library of America
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-us
- Weight
- 650 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781598532258
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β¦ Synopsis
When Cooper's most memorable hero, Leatherstocking, started an American tradition by setting off into the sunset in The Pioneers , one early reader said of his departure, "I longed to go with him."
American readers couldn't get enough of the Leatherstocking saga (collected in two Library of America volumes) and, fourteen years after he portrayed the death of Natty Bumppo in The Prairie , Cooper brought him back in The Pathfinder , or The Inland Sea (1841). During the Seven Years War, just after the events narrated in The Last of the Mohicans , Natty brings the daughter of a British sergeant to her father's station on the Great Lakes, where the French and their Indian allies are plotting a treacherous ambush. Here, for the first time, he falls in love with a woman, before Cooper manages bring off Leatherstocking's most poignant, and perhaps his most revealing, escape.
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The Deerslayer_ (1842) brings the saga full circle and follows...
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The Leatherstocking Tales is a series of novels following the adventures of the hero Natty Bumppo, who was known by European settlers as "Leatherstocking," 'The Pathfinder", and "the trapper" and by the Native Americans as "Deerslayer," "La Longue Carabine" and "Hawkeye". Natty Bumppo is a child of