The Pioneers

By: James Fenimore Cooper

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Paperback | 6 June 1988 | Edition Number 1

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In this classic novel, James Fenimore Cooper portrays life in a new settlement on New York's Lake Otsego in the closing years of the eighteenth century. He describes the year's cycle: the turkey shoot at Christmas, the tapping of maple trees, fishing for bass in the evening, the marshalling of the militia. But Cooper is also concerned with exploring the development of the cultural and philosophical underpinnings of the American experience. He writes of the conflicts within the settlement itself, focusing primarily on the contrast between the natural codes of the hunter and woodsman Natty Bumppo and his Indian friend John Mohegan and the more rigid structure of law needed by a more complex society. Quite possibly America's first best-seller (more than three thousand copies were sold within hours of publication), The Pioneers today evokes a vibrant and authentic picture of the American pioneering experience.

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Cooper's third novel is concerned with the quick-changing frontier land in 19th-century America. He tells us how 'beautiful and thriving villages' and 'academies (sic) and minor edifices of learning' quickly sprang up to show 'how much can be done in even a rugged country'. But even while he records the progress, Cooper clearly mourns for the disappearing wilderness. He gives it a representative in the worn, elderly man of the woods, Natty Bumppo, known as Leatherstocking. Ever in conflict with Judge Temple (based on Cooper's father) and his new pioneers, he stands as a protector of the older wilderness, of the Indian, of the simpler world of natural law. (Kirkus UK)

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A Note on the Text	p. vi
Introduction	p. vii
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. xxiii
Preface to the First Edition (1823)	p. 3
Introduction to the 1832 Edition	p. 6
Introduction to the Putnam Edition (1851)	p. 11
The Pioneers	p. 15
Notes	p. 457
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