"The Leatherstocking Tales is a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper, set in the eighteenth century era of development in the primarily former Iroquois areas in central New York. Each novel features Natty Bumppo, a frontiersman known to European-American settlers as 'Leatherstocking', 'The Pathfinder', and 'the trapper'. Native Americans call him 'Deerslayer', 'La Longue Carabine' ('Long Rifle' in French), and 'Hawkeye'. ... The story dates are derived from dates given in the tales and span the period roughly of 1740–1806. They do not necessarily correspond with the actual dates of the historical events described in the series, which discrepancies Cooper likely introduced for the sake of convenience. ..."
1919 endpaper illustration for The Last of the Mohicans by N. C. Wyeth.
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