The Pioneers (novel)
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The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is an 1823 historical novel by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. It was the first of five novels published which became known a
First edition title page
Illustration by Felix Octavius Carr Darley
Leatherstocking Tales
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The Leatherstocking Tales is a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper, set in the eighteenth-century era of development in the primarily former Iroquois areas in Central New Yo
The Pioneers (novel)
…Descriptive Tale is an 1823 historical novel by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. It was the first of five novels published which became known as the Leatherstocking Tales. The Pioneers is the fourth novel in terms of the chronology of the novels' plots. The story takes place on the rapidly advancing frontier of New York…
Cover illustration by Carl Offterdinger for a German youth edition of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales
1989 USSR stamp, on themes of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales