1823–1841 series of five books by James Fenimore Cooper
Cover illustration by Carl Offterdinger for a German youth edition of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales
1989 USSR stamp, on themes of James Fenimore Cooper 's Leatherstocking Tales
The Leatherstocking Tales is a series of five novels (The Deerslayer , The Last of the Mohicans , The Pathfinder , The Pioneers , and The Prairie ) by American writer James Fenimore Cooper , set in the eighteenth-century era of development in the primarily former Iroquois areas in central New York.[ 1] [ 2] Each novel features Natty Bumppo , a frontiersman known to European-American settlers as "Leatherstocking",[ 3] "The Pathfinder",[ 4] and "the trapper".[ 5] Native Americans call him "Deerslayer",[ 6] "La Longue Carabine " ("Long Rifle" in French),[ 7] and "Hawkeye".[ 8]
^ Franklin, Wayne, James Fenimore Cooper: the Early Years ; Yale University Press; New Haven, Connecticut: 2007. 752 p. 03001080528
^ Franklin, Wayne, James Fenimore Cooper: the Later Years ; Yale University Press; New Haven, Connecticut: 2017. 840 p. 030013571
^ Cooper, James Fenimore; The Prairie: A Tale ; Easton Press; Limited edition; Norwalk, Connecticut: 1968.
^ Cooper, James Fenimore; The Pathfinder: Or The Inland Sea ; Penguin Classics; London: 1989. 512 p. ISBN 0-14-039071-5
^ Cooper, James Fenimore; The Prairie: A Tale ; Easton Press; Limited edition; Norwalk, Connecticut: 1968.
^ Cooper, James Fenimore; The Deerslayer: The First War Path ; Wordsworth Classics; Hertfordshire, England: 1998. 423 p. ISBN 1-85326-552-7
^ Cooper, James Fenimore; The Last of the Mohicans: A Tale of 1757 ; Bantam Classics; New York: 1982. 432 p. ISBN 0-12-000030-X
^ Cooper, James Fenimore; The Deerslayer: The First War Path ; Wordsworth Classics; Hertfordshire, England: 1998. 423 p. ISBN 1-85326-552-7