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The Leatherstocking Tales
1880·414 pages
Five classic novels follow frontiersman Natty Bumppo through the American wilderness amid war, settlement, and vanishing native ways.
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Five classic novels follow frontiersman Natty Bumppo through the American wilderness amid war, settlement, and vanishing native ways.
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The five novels in The Leatherstocking Tales (collected in two Library of America volumes), Cooper's great saga of the American wilderness, form a pageant of the American frontier. Cooper's hero, Natty Bumppo, is forced ever farther into the heart of the continent by the advance of civilization that he inadvertently serves as advance scout, missionary, and critic. Leatherstocking first appears in The Pioneers (1823), as an aged hunter living on the fringe of settlement near Templeton (Cooperstow...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Chaste romantic subplots and courtship; attraction without explicit content
Violence & gore
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Frontier battles, massacres, scalping, ambushes, and on-page wartime deaths
Profanity
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Rare mild period oaths and rough frontier speech
Substance use
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Occasional social drinking in frontier and settlement settings
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQ+ representation present
Religious content
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Recurring Christian morality, Providence, and moral-religious framing
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonological content present
Political content
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Central themes of civilization vs wilderness, race, and expansion
Self-harm / suicide
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No evidence found in available sources
Abuse & suffering
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Captivity, wartime atrocities, and racial conflict suffering depicted
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