Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Cooper, James Fenimore; Taylor, Alan |
| Publisher: | Library of America |
| Date: | 1/19/2012 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
The first of Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, The Pioneers introduces the character of Natty Bumppo, one of literature’s mostunforgettable heroes, an outsider on the advancing edge of acivilization he can neither abide nor escape. Bumppo makes his firstappearance here as an aged hunter living on the fringe of settlementnear Templeton (Cooperstown), New York, at the end of the eighteenthcentury. An introduction by historian Alan Taylor (William Cooper’sTown) explores the real historical backdrop against which Cooper’simagination flourished.
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