The Political Institutions of the Ancient Greeks (Unabridged)

The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is a historical book by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. It was the first of five novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales. Published in 1823, the period it covers makes The Pioneers the fourth chronologically in terms of the novels' plots.

The tale takes place on the rapidly advancing frontier of New York State and features an elderly Leatherstocking (Natty Bumpo), Judge Marmaduke Temple of Templeton (whose life para...