The Pioneers
James Fenimore Cooper, Leon Howard
Paperback
(Rinehart and Company, Aug. 16, 1960)
With The Pioneers (1823), Cooper initiated his series of elegiac romances of frontier life and introduced the world to Natty Bumppo (or Leather-stocking). Set in 1793 in New York State, the novel depicts an aging Leather-stocking negotiating his way in a restlessly expanding society.