The Pioneers

The first conservationist novel in American literature, and the first of the Leatherstocking Tales to be published, Cooper draws on his own experiences growing up in a frontier town to illuminate, in a montage of vividly realistic and beautifully descriptive vignettes, village life on the American frontier. For the first time Nathaniel Bumpo (Leatherstocking, Hawkeye, the Trapper, Pathfinder, Deerslayer), one of the most enduring characters in the American canon, jumps to life on the pages of "The Pioneers". Part frontier adventure, part romance, part pastoral poem, part courtroom drama, The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper is an American classic!