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The Deerslayer

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The last written of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales returns to the youth of his famous frontiersman, Natty Bumppo, here earning the name Deerslayer on his first campaign. The action unfolds around a glassy lake in 1740s New York, where a settler and his two daughters are besieged by Huron warriors and a reckless companion drags Deerslayer into the fighting. Torn between the code of the woods and the brutal customs of frontier war, the young hunter refuses to take a life dishonorably even at great risk to himself. Cooper fills the story with canoe chases, captures, and hairbreadth escapes, along with his lingering feeling for the wilderness. This free PDF and EPUB edition presents the full novel.

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James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonial and indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought him fame and fortune.

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