 | The Deerslayer Subjects: Bumppo Natty (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; New York (State) -- History -- French and Indian War 1754–1763 -- Fiction; Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction; Scouting (Reconnaissance) -- Fiction; Delaware Indians -- Fiction; Male friendship -- Fictio; Though The Deerslayer (1841) was the last of Cooper's five Leather-stocking tales to be written, it is the first in the chronology of Natty Bumppo's life. Set in the 1740s before the start of the French and Indian War, when Cooper's rugged frontiersman is in his twenties, Cooper's novel shows us how "Deerslayer" becomes "Hawkeye." It remains the best point of entry into the series for modern readers. |
