TY - BOOK ID - 138701521 TI - The deerslayer AU - Cooper, James Fenimore AU - Peck, H Daniel PY - 1999 SN - 1283168367 9786613168368 0191611247 0191610704 9780191610707 9780786508846 0786508841 9781101221747 1101221747 0192837257 9780192837257 PB - Oxford New York Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - Scouting (Reconnaissance) KW - Delaware Indians KW - Male friendship KW - Hunters KW - Bumppo, Natty KW - New York (State) KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138701521 AB - The Deerslayer (1841) is the last-written of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, but the first in the development of the hero, Natty Bumppo. Here, Cooper returns Leatherstocking to his youth and to a pristine wilderness that D. H. Lawrence said was perhaps `lovelier than any place created in language'.This novel, and the contemporaneous The Pathfinder, mark Cooper's return to historical romance after more than a decade given largely to social and political commentary. Written during the period of Cooper's bitter legal battles with the Whig press, The Deerslayer reflects a retreat from his difficul ER -