The Deerslayer | The Contrast Between Deerslayer and Hurry Harry
Aubrey holds a Ph.D. in English. In this essay, he analyzes The Deerslayer in terms of the contrast between Deerslayer and Hurry Harry and what that signifies for the future of the American colonies, soon to become the United States of America.
Visitors in the early 2000s to the crowded Lake Otsego area, one of New York’s popular tourist destinations, need an effort of the imagination to recreate for themselves Cooper’s vision of the Glimmerglass, the pristine lake at the heart of the virgin wilderness where he set his final (although first in chronology) Leatherstocking Tale. As Cooper noted in his 1850 preface to The Deerslayer, it was not until 1760 that the first settlements appeared on the banks of Lake Otsego, so setting the story twenty years earlier than that gave him a sound basis for what in effect is a...
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