The Prairie

by James Fenimore Cooper Narrated by LibriVox Community

Overview

The story opens with Ishmael, his family, Ellen and Abiram slowly making their way across the virgin prairies of the Midwest looking for a homestead, just two years after the Louisiana Purchase, and during the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. They meet the trapper (Natty Bumppo), who has left his home in New York state to find a place where he cannot hear the sound of people cutting down the forests. In the years between his other adventures and this novel, he tells us only that he has walked all the way to the Pacific Ocean and seen all the land between the coasts (a heroic feat, considering Lewis and Clark hadn't yet completed the same trek). (Summary by Wikipedia)

Editorial Reviews

J. W. Ward

We still read Cooper today because he was the first of our authors to seize upon the dramatic possibilities of that unfallen western world that stands at the beginning of our national life.”

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170019700
Publisher:	LibriVox
Publication date:	08/25/2014
Sales rank:	383,853

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