The Deerslayer | Critical Overview
On publication, The Deerslayer received mostly favorable reviews, some of which are quoted in George Dekker’s and John P. McWilliams’s Fenimore Cooper: The Critical Heritage and others of which are cited in James Franklin Beard’s “Historical Introduction” to the 1987 edition of the novel. Dekker and McWilliams quote an unsigned review in the New-York Mirror that presents an almost entirely positive view of the novel: “He [Cooper] is the most original thinker of any of our American novelists . . . unrivalled in descriptive powers, and unapproached in the...
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