The Last of the Mohicans, THE PIONEERS, James Fenimore Cooper, LEATHERSTOCKING TALES, An American Saga comparable to Louis L'amour's Sackett Series

This was the first book written of the Leatherstocking Tales. Chronologically, it falls in fourth place. James Fenimore Cooper portrays life in a new settlement on New York's Lake Otsego in the closing years of the eighteenth century. It is about a now middle-aged Natty Bumppo (known as “Leatherstocking”) and Judge Marmaduke Temple. The story begins with an argument between the Judge and Leatherstocking over who killed a buck. The book is really about nature and the stewardship of the land.