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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),...
Leatherstocking first appears in The Pioneers (1823),...
2) The orenda
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"History reveals itself when, in the seventeenth century, a Jesuit missionary ventures into the Canadian wilderness in search of converts-the defining moment of first contact between radically different worlds. What unfolds over the next several years is truly epic, constantly illuminating and surprising, sometimes comic, always entrancing and ultimately all too human in its tragic grandeur. Christophe has been in the New World only a year when his...
3) Peacemaker
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While out hunting with his friends, twelve-year-old Okwaho's friend is kidnapped by a neighboring tribal nation. The Five Nations of the Iroquois have been at war for as long as anyone can remember, and Okwaho is determined to get revenge. But before he can do anything, Okaho meets a stranger with stories of a Peacemaker. Okwaho believes that the Peacemaker could convince the leaders of the Five Nations of the Iroquois to stop fighting, and his actions...
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