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MEET NATTY BUMPPO The first volume in the famous Leatherstocking Tales, The Pioneers introduces Natty Bumppo, the quintessential American hunter and frontiersman who struggles to defend his cherished freedom.

In this classic novel, James Fenimore Cooper portrays life in a new settlement on New York's Lake Otsego in the closing years of the eighteenth century. He describes the year's cycle: the turkey shoot at Christmas, the tapping of maple trees, fishing for bass in the evening,... Read Full Overview

One of the best books of all time, James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers . If you haven't read this classic already, then you're missing out - read The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper today!

"History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness." James Fenimore Cooper,

The Pioneers is a classic novel by James Fenimore Cooper , published in 1823. Set in the late eighteenth century, the novel centers around the settlement of the fictional town of Templeton, New York. Through the eyes of the main character Natty Bumppo, the reader is taken on... Read Full Overview

The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; is a wonderful Tale and historical novel by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. It was the first in a series of five novels called the Leatherstocking Tales.Any profits generated from the sale of this book will go towards the... Read Full Overview

MEET NATTY BUMPPO The first volume in the famous Leatherstocking Tales, The Pioneers introduces Natty Bumppo, the quintessential American hunter and frontiersman who struggles to defend his cherished freedom.

Near the centre of the State of New York lies an extensive district of country whose surface is a succession of hills and dales, or, to speak with greater deference to geographical definitions, of mountains and valleys. It is among these hills that the Delaware takes its rise;... Read Full Overview

The story takes place on the rapidly advancing frontier of New York State and features an elderly Leatherstocking, Judge Marmaduke Temple of Templeton, whose life parallels that of the author's father Judge William Cooper, and Elizabeth Temple of the fictional Templeton, New... Read Full Overview

The first of the five Leatherstocking Tales, The Pioneers is perhaps the most realistic and beautiful of the series. Drawing on his own experiences, Cooper brilliantly describes Frontier life, providing a fascinating backdrop to the real heart of the novel--the competing claims... Read Full Overview

With The Pioneers (1823), Cooper initiated his series of elegiac romances of frontier life and introduced the world to Natty Bumppo (or Leather-stocking). Set in 1793 in New York State, the novel depicts an aging Leather-stocking negotiating his way in a restlessly expanding... Read Full Overview

The story takes place on the rapidly advancing frontier of New York State and features a middle-aged Leatherstocking (Natty Bumppo), Judge Marmaduke Temple of Templeton, whose life parallels that of the author's father Judge William Cooper, and Elizabeth Temple (the author's... Read Full Overview

The first of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, The Pioneers introduces the character of Natty Bumppo, one of literature's most unforgettable heroes, an outsider on the advancing edge of a civilization he can neither abide nor escape. Bumppo makes his first appearance... Read Full Overview

Originally published in 1823, the novel is the first of Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales and the one that incorporates most fully his own experience of growing up in a town on the American frontier. He provides brilliant pictures of village life, from Christmas dinner and... Read Full Overview