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The Deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each readers understanding of these enduring works. Live by your own council. Be brave in the face of the unknown. Be always fair.-Natty Bumppo, The DeerslayerOne of the greatest heroes in American literature, Natty Bumppo is the rugged frontiersman of James Fenimore Coopers Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels that includes The Last of the Mohicans and The Deerslayer. Although the final volume to be written, The Deerslayer is the first in the chronology of Natty Bumppos life, depicting the character as a young man testing himself in the wilderness, and against enemies, for the first time.Set in the 1740s just as the French and Indian wars have begun, the novel opens as Natty Bumppoknown as Deerslayerand his friend Hurry Harry travel to Tom Hutters house in upstate New York. Hurry plans to marry Toms beautiful daughter Judith, while Deerslayer has come to help his close friend Chingachgook save his bride-to-be, Wah-ta-Wah, from the Huron Indians. When war breaks out, and Hurry and Tom are captured by Indians, Deerslayer must go on his first warpath to rescue them.One of the earliest novels to be considered truly American, The Deerslayer is a masterpiece of suspense, adventure, and romance. Bruce L. R. Smith is a fellow at the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author or editor of sixteen scholarly books, and he continues to lecture widely in the United States and abroad.
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FROM THE PAGES OF THE DEERSLAYER
On all sides, wherever the eye turned, nothing met it but the mirrorlike surface of the lake, the placid view of heaven, and the dense setting of woods. So rich and fleecy were the outlines of the forest, that scarce an opening could be seen, the whole visible earth, from the rounded mountaintop to the waters edge, presenting one unvaried hue of unbroken verdure.
(page 29)
They call me Deerslayer, Ill own; and perhaps I desarve the name, in the way of understanding the creaturs habits, as well as for sartainty in the aim; but they cant accuse me of killing an animal when there is no occasion for the meat or the skin. I may be a slayer, its true, but Im no slaughterer.
(page 49)
Deerslayeror Hawkeye, as the youth was then first named, for in after years he bore the appellation throughout all that regionDeerslayer took the hand of the savage, whose last breath was drawn in that attitude, gazing in admiration at the countenance of a stranger, who had shown so much readiness, skill, and firmness.
(page 112)
Natur will have its way
(page 149)
In a bark canoe, they were totally without cover, and Indian discretion was entirely opposed to such a sacrifice of life as would most probably follow any attempt to assault an enemy, entrenched as effectually as the Delaware. Instead of following the ark, therefore, these three warriors inclined towards the eastern shore, keeping at a safe distance from the rifles of Chingachgook.
(page 3 3 0)
Ought the young to wive with the oldthe paleface with the redskinthe Christian with the heathen? Its agin reason and natur.
(page 464)
James Fenimore Cooper
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
James Fenimore Cooper was born September 15, 1789, in Burlington, New Jersey, to William Cooper and Elizabeth Fenimore Cooper. In 1790 the family moved to the frontier country of upstate New York, where William had established a village he called Cooperstown. Although cushioned by wealth and Williams position as a judge, the Coopers found pioneer life to be rugged, and only seven of the thirteen Cooper children survived their early years. Profoundly affected by the challenges of frontier living, James would repeatedly draw on his childhood experience in The Pioneers and many of his other novels.
Cooper was educated by private tutors and at Yale, where he enrolled in 1803; he was expelled in 1805 after setting off an explosion that blew off another students dormitory door. As a midshipman in the U.S. Navy, he served at an isolated post on Lake Ontario and in a relatively leisurely assignment in New York City, where he met his future wife, Susan Augusta De Lancey, daughter of a wealthy family. In 1811 he resigned his commission to marry her.
According to family lore, Cooper fell into writing on a dare: One evening he threw down a novel in disgust, saying he could write a better book himself; when Susan challenged him and reminded him that he could barely stand to write a letter, Cooper wrote his first novel, Precaution, published in 1820. Encouraged by favorable reviews, Cooper wrote other books in quick succession and was soon regarded as a major voice in Americas emerging literary tradition. He eventually published thirty-two novels and was the first American to make a living as a professional novelist. Natty Bumppo, who appears in The Deerslayer and the four other Leatherstocking Tales that Cooper published between 1823 and 1841, became one of Americas favorite fictional heroes. Cooper and his family lived in Europe for seven years but returned to America in 1833. Eventually settling in Cooperstown, Cooper remained on the American literary scene as a prolific writer of political tracts, naval histories, and works of fiction. He died in Cooperstown on September 14, 1851.
THE WORLD OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER AND THE DEERSLAYER
| 1789 | The twelfth of thirteen children, James Cooper is born on September 15 to Judge William Cooper and Elizabeth Fenimore Cooper in Burlington, New Jersey. George Washington is inaugurated president of the United States. |
| 1790 | The Coopers move to the frontier country of upstate New York, where William had founded Cooperstown a few years earlier. In his novels, James will repeatedly draw on his early frontier experiences. |
| 1803 | James Fenimore Cooper enters Yale. |
| 1805 | Cooper is expelled from Yale for blowing off a fellow students door with gunpowder. |
| 1806 | Cooper works as a sailor on the Stirling, a merchant vessel. His travels take him to Spain and England. |
| 1808 | Cooper joins the Navy, making Atlantic passages and serving at an isolated post on Lake Ontario. |
| 1811 | Cooper marries Susan Augusta De Lancey, the daughter of a wealthy family in Westchester County, New York. The couple, plagued by financial troubles for the next several years, moves to various towns in New York State before buying a country home near Scarsdale, where they settle with their seven children. |
| 1812 | The United States declares war on Great Britain. |
| 1814 | British troops set fire to Washington, D.C. Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner. |
| 1819 | Washington Irvings tale Rip Van Winkle appears. |
| 1820 | After accepting a challenge from his wife to write a book, Cooper pens Precaution, a novel of manners. The Missouri Compromise draws the line between free states and slave states. |
| 1821 | The Spy, a historical romance set during the American Revolution, is published, establishing Cooper as a major literary figure. |
| 1823 | Cooper publishes The Pioneers, the first of the five Leatherstocking Tales, which are set in the 1700s, both before and after the American Revolution, and tell the life of hunter, trapper, and scout Natty Bumppo, known as Leatherstocking. The books follow Natty through various periods of his life, but not in chronological order. |
| 1826 | The Last of the Mohicans, the second Leatherstocking Tale, is published ; Natty aligns himself with Uncas, the Indian of the title, and works as a scout in the British army. The Cooper family moves to Europe, and resides in Paris, Switzerland, Belgium, and England for the next seven years. |
| 1827 | The Prairie, the third novel in the Leatherstocking series, is published ; Natty Bumppo dies among the Indians west of the Mississippi, where he has been driven by the advancing line of pioneers. |
| 1829 | Cooper publishes Notions of the Americans, a reflection on his native land and one of six books he writes while living abroad. |
| 1833 | Cooper returns to the United States. |
| 1834 | Cooper writes A Letter to His Countrymen, in which he criticizes American provincialism and announces his retirement from writing fiction. He publishes Sketches of Switzerland, one of his many travel narratives. |
| 1837 | In response to hostile treatment in the Whig press, Cooper instigates a series of libel suits, in which he remains entangled for years to come. |
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