Vigorous, self-reliant, amazingly resourceful and moral, Natty Bumppo is the prototype of the Western hero. A faultless arbiter of wilderness justice, he hates middle-class hypocrisy. But he finds his love divided between the woman he has pledged to protect on a treacherous journey and the untouched forest that sustains him in his beliefs. A fast-paced narrative full of adventure and majestic descriptions of early frontier life, Indian raiders and defenceless outposts, The Pathfinder set the standard for epic action literature.
"[Cooper's works] should find a place in every American's library."
"Cooper emphatically belongs to the nation. He has left a space in our literature which will not easily be supplied."--Washington Irving"His memory will exist in the hearts of the people...[and his works] should find a place in every American's library."--Daniel Webster
His memory will exist in the hearts of the people...[and his works] should find a place in every American s library. Daniel Webster
Cooper emphatically belongs to the nation. He has left a space in our literature which will not easily be supplied. Washington Irving"
"His memory will exist in the hearts of the people...[and his works] should find a place in every American's library."--Daniel Webster
"Cooper emphatically belongs to the nation. He has left a space in our literature which will not easily be supplied."--Washington Irving