THE DEERSLAYER: OR THE FIRST WAR-PATH

by James Fenimore Cooper, The Gunston Trust (Editor)

Overview

THE DEER SLAYER - JAMES FENIMORE COOPER - GUNSTON CLASSICS
The Deerslayer, or The First War-Path (1841) was James Fenimore Cooper's last novel in his Leatherstocking Tales. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798823189200
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	01/31/2023
Pages:	598
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.21(d)

About the Author

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER - 1789 - 1851 - COOPERSTOWN, NY.

Known for his Leatherstocking Tales of the native Indians and early homesteaders. Cooper was one of the more popular 19th-century American authors, and his work was admired greatly throughout the world. He was one of the early major American novelists to include African, African-American and Native American characters in his works. In particular, Native Americans play central roles in his Leatherstocking Tales.

Date of Birth:

September 15, 1789

Date of Death:

September 14, 1851

Place of Birth:

Burlington, New Jersey

Place of Death:

Cooperstown, New York

Education:

Yale University (expelled in 1805)