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Which five novels make up James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales?
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James Fenimore Cooper, painting by John Wesley Jarvis, 1822; in the Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York.
The Leatherstocking Tales are a series of five novels by James Fenimore Cooper that chronicle the life of the frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Although they were not published in chronological order, the five novels are as follows:
- The Pioneers (1823)
- The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
- The Prairie (1827)
- The Pathfinder (1840)
- The Deerslayer (1841)1