The Prairie: Leatherstocking Tales #5 by James Fenimore Cooper (Full Version)

by James Cooper

Overview

The Prairie: A Tale (1827) is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, the third novel written by him featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero, who is simply known as "the trapper" in it. Chronologically The Prairie is the fifth and final installment of the Leatherstocking Tales. It depicts Natty in the final year of his life still proving helpful to people in distress on the American frontier. Continuity with The Last of the Mohicans is indicated by the appearance of the grandson of Duncan and Alice Heyward of The Last of the Mohicans and the noble Pawnee chief Hard Heart, whose name is English for the French nickname for the Delaware, le Coeur-dur. Natty is drawn to Hard Heart as a noble warrior in the likeness of his dear friend Uncas, "the last of the Mohicans."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013663992
Publisher:	Maran State Books
Publication date:	01/17/2012
Series:	Leatherstocking Tales , #5
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	622 KB

About the Author

James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851)
was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th
century. He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous
sea-stories and the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking
Tales, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Among his most famous
works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans, which many
consider to be his masterpiece.