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  • The Deerslayer

    James Fenimore Cooper

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Dec. 17, 2015)
    Many are unfamiliar with James Fenimore Cooper, even though every American comes across his work in the class or on TV. Today he is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Cooper’s most famous novel is The Last of the Mohicans, which was one of the novels comprising The Leatherstocking Tales and was later made into a popular movie.
  • The Deerslayer

    James Fenimore Cooper, Alan Nevins

    Mass Market Paperback (Signet Classics, Aug. 1, 1963)
    Follows the adventures of the brave and bold frontiersman, Natty Bumppo
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  • The Deerslayer

    James Fenimore Cooper

    Mass Market Paperback (Signet Classics, Aug. 1, 1963)
    This novel introduces Natty Bumppo as "Deerslayer", a young frontiersman in early 18th-century New York. He is contrasted to other frontiersmen and settlers in the novel who have no compunctions in taking scalps in that his natural philosophy is that every living thing should follow "the gifts" of its nature—which would keep European Americans from taking scalps. Two such characters in the work who actually seek to take scalps are Henry March ("Hurry Harry") and floating Tom Hutter. In the dead of night Hutter and March sneak into the camp of the besieging members of the Huron tribe in order to kill and scalp as many as they can. Their plan fails, and Tom Hutter and March are captured. They are later ransomed by Bumppo, his lifelong friend Chingachgook, and Hutter's daughters, Judith and Hetty. Bumppo and Chingachgook come up with a plan to rescue Chingachgook's kidnapped betrothed Wah-ta!-Wah from the Hurons; but, in rescuing her, Bumppo is captured. In his absence, the Hurons invade Hutter's home, and Hutter is mortally wounded and scalped. After the death of Hutter his supposed daughters find out that they were not his natural daughters and he had been a notorious pirate. Bumppo's remaining allies and friends plan how to aid his escape from his Huron captors.
  • The Deerslayer

    J Fenimore Cooper

    Hardcover (Frederick Warne, )
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  • The Deerslayer

    James Fenimore Cooper, Basil Davenport

    Hardcover (Dodd, Mead & Company, Sept. 3, 1952)
    Book is used and has been withdrawn from service from a Library. Book has a Library Binding and the usual Library Stamps, Stickers, Card Holder, Library Markings. May or May Not have a Dust Jacket.
  • The Deerslayer

    James Fenimore Cooper

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Jan. 5, 2014)
    James Fenimore Cooper was a popular writer of historical fiction in the 19th century specifically of frontier and Indian life. Cooper’s most famous novel is The Last of the Mohicans which was made into a popular movie. The Last of the Mohicans is part of the 5 book series known as the Leatherstocking Tales. The Deerslayer is the last book of the Leatherstocking Tales and has also been made into many movies. Though it was the last novel written, it is the earliest chronologically of the Leatherstocking Tales. The novel follows the life of Natty Bumppo as "Deerslayer".
  • The Deerslayer

    James Fenimore Cooper

    (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Sept. 27, 2015)
    The Deerslayer, or The First War-path (1841) was the last of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales to be written. Its 1740-1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the Leatherstocking tales, Natty Bumppo. The novel's setting on Otsego Lake in central, upstate New York, is the same as that of The Pioneers, the first of the Leatherstocking Tales to be published (1823). The Deerslayer is considered to be the prequel to the rest of the series. Fenimore Cooper begins his work by relating the astonishing advance of civilization in New York State, which is the setting of four of his five Leatherstocking Tales. This novel introduces Natty Bumppo as "Deerslayer": a young frontiersman in early 18th-century New York, who objects to the practice of taking scalps, on grounds that every living thing should follow "the gifts" of its nature, which would keep European Americans from taking scalps. Two characters who actually seek to take scalps are Deerslayer's foil Henry March (alias "Hurry Harry") and the former pirate 'Floating Tom' Hutter, to whom Deerslayer is introduced en route to a rendezvous with the latter's lifelong friend Chingachgook (initially apparent in The Last of the Mohicans). Shortly before the rendezvous, Hutter's residence is besieged by the indigenous Hurons, and Hutter and March sneak into the camp of the besiegers to kill and scalp as many as they can; but are captured in the act, and later ransomed by Bumppo, Chingachgook, and Hutter's daughters Judith and Hetty. Bumppo and Chingachgook thereafter plan to rescue Chingachgook's kidnapped betrothed Wah-ta-Wah (alias 'Hist') from the Hurons; but, in rescuing her, Bumppo is captured. In his absence, the Hurons invade Hutter's home, and Hutter is scalped alive. On his deathbed, he confesses that Judith and Hetty were not his daughters by birth, and Judith determines to discover her natural father's identity; but her search reveals only that her late mother had been of aristocratic descent, and had married 'Floating Tom' after the collapse of an illicit affair. Later, Judith attempts and fails to rescue Deerslayer; and they are all saved at last when March returns with English reinforcements, who massacre the Hurons and mortally wound Hetty. After Hetty's death, Judith proposes marriage to Deerslayer, but is refused, and is last described as the paramour of a soldier. Fifteen years later, Bumppo and Chingachgook return to the site, to find Hutter's house in ruins.
  • The Deerslayer

    James Fenimore Cooper

    Hardcover (Lightyear Pr, June 1, 1984)
    The last of the five Leatherstocking tales recalls Natty Bumppo's adventures as a young man among the Delaware Indians of New York.
  • The deerslayer

    James Fenimore Cooper

    Hardcover (Macmillan, Sept. 3, 1927)
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  • The Deerslayer

    James Fenimore Cooper

    Mass Market Paperback (Bantam Classics, March 15, 1991)
    The deadly crack of a long rifle and the piercing cries of Indians on the warpath shatter the serenity of beautiful lake Gimmerglass. Danger has invaded the vast forest of upper New York State as Deerslayer and his loyal Mohican friend Chingachgook attempt the daring rescue of an Indian maiden imprisoned in a Huron camp. (From the back cover.)
  • The Deerslayer

    James Fenimore Cooper

    Mass Market Paperback (Signet Classics, Aug. 1, 1963)
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  • The Deerslayer

    James Fenimore Cooper

    Hardcover (President Publishing Company, Sept. 3, 1900)
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