Leatherstocking tales

The Deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: • New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars • Biographies of the authors • Chronologies...

This book is the fourth novel Cooper wrote featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero. "The Pathfinder" is the third chronological episode of the "Leatherstocking Tales." The inland sea of the title refers to Lake Ontario.

"The Prairie" is a historical novel by Cooper featuring Natty Bumppo. In this westward expansion story, the fictitious frontier hero Bumppo is never called by his name but is instead referred to as "the trapper" or "the old man." Chronologically, "The Prairie" is the fifth and final installment of the "Leatherstocking Tales," though it was published before "The Pathfinder" and "The Deerslayer." Journey with Natty in the final year of his life as...