The Deerslayer: Leatherstocking Tales Volume 5

The first book in James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, The Deerslayer is the exciting tale of the Deerslayer—known by name as Natty Bumppo—a young white man raised by a Delaware Indian tribe in the pre-revolutionary American colonies. Forced to kill for the first time in battle, Natty is tortured by his Huron captors and comes to oppose many of the customs and practices of his tribesmen.

The Deerslayer, though written after the first four books in the Leatherstocking Tales, takes ...