The Prairie (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: James Fenimore Cooper
- First Published: 1827
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Adventure
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Midwest, Native Americans or American Indians, Westerns, Hunting or hunters, Frontier or pioneer life, Exploration or explorers, Wilderness
- Locales: United States
The Prairie, the third published novel of the Leatherstocking Tales but the last in Deerslayer's chronology, depicts Leatherstocking, now known as the trapper or the old man, in his final days. The setting is the edge of the Great Plains, the time is 1805, and the hero is in his eighties—his maturation and movement have paralleled that of the United States. Although Cooper himself never traveled to this locale, he researched his subject well. Unfortunately, with the familiar good against bad Indians dichotomy (this time the Pawnee and Sioux, respectively), wise sayings that...
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