James Fenimore Cooper

The Deerslayer

Frontier adventure novel about a young trapper and his coming of age

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James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper created the first distinctly American adventure fiction, most notably the Leatherstocking Tales featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo. His romantic wilderness novels shaped the mythology of the American frontier.

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