The Deerslayer

In his youth on a wilderness lake, the hunter Natty Bumppo faces his first battles and his first hard moral tests. James Fenimore Cooper opens the Leatherstocking saga at its chronological beginning.

At a glance Before he was Leatherstocking, before the legend, he was a young hunter learning what he… The Deerslayer is James Fenimore Cooper turning back to the origins of his most enduring… What it's about On the shores of a glassy frontier lake, the young woodsman known as… Alongside a boisterous companion and the inhabitants of a fortified lake dwelling, he…

On the shores of a glassy frontier lake, the young woodsman known as Deerslayer is drawn into conflict during the wars between rival peoples of the region.