BOOK CONTENTS
Search Entire Book
To read entire book click the launch button. All books are copy friendly, it is free, search for words or phrases without copying if you are using a PC or laptop.
Book Name
The Deerslayer
Book Author
James Fenimore Cooper
Book Image
Contents
Book Description
The Deerslayer, or The First War-path (1841) was the last of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales to be written. Its 1740-1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the Leatherstocking tales, Natty Bumppo. The novel's setting on Otsego Lake in central, upstate New York, is the same as that of The Pioneers, the first of the Leatherstocking Tales to be published (1823). The Deerslayer is considered to be the prequel to the rest of the series. Fenimore Cooper begins his work by relating the astonishing advance of civilization in New York State, which is the setting of four of his five Leatherstocking Tales.