The Deerslayer

Complete and unabridged, with 25 full-page plates by Meindert Hobbema, Thomas Cole and John Frederick Kensett. The scout is young here, on his first war-path in the Otsego country, and the argument with the Hurons is over a girl, a bag of ivory chessmen and whether a man may take a scalp. Cooper wrote it last of the five Leatherstocking tales and set it first in time. The gauntlet run and the tria...