The Pioneers

Complete and unabridged, with 54 full-page plates by Thomas Cole, Thomas Doughty and George Catlin. A frontier settlement on Otsego Lake in 1793 is putting up a courthouse, shooting pigeons by the thousand and arguing about who owns the land, while an old hunter is prosecuted for killing a deer out of season. Cooper grew up in the village his father founded and wrote it as the first of the Leather...