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The Prairie

The Prairie

by James Fenimore Cooper

Popular Print Disabled BooksIndians of North AmericaOpen Library Staff PicksNatty Bumppo (Fictitious character)Fiction
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About this book

Deep in the heart of the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase, five hundred miles beyond the Mississippi River, a group of travelers in the year 1805 pushes yet farther westward over the prairie. Called "squatters" and equipped with covered wagons, livestock, farming implements, and household furnishings, they give every appearance of being ordinary settlers except for the fact they have bypassed the fertile river bottoms for the less productive Great Plains. This group is comprised of the rough, semiliterate Ishmael and Esther Bush, now in their fifties; their numerous children, including seven grown sons; Esther's brother, Abiram White; Ellen Wade, a niece, whose bearing bespeaks a more refined background; and Dr. Obed Bat, an eccentric naturalist. In search of a camping place for the night, they are suddenly confronted by a colossal figure who momentarily fills them with superstitious awe. It is Natty Bumppo, whose form, greatly magnified by an optical illusion, is outlined against the setting sun on the horizon. Once a hunter and scout but now reduced in his old age to trapping, Natty is almost as startled as the newcomers by the encounter. It has been months since the octogenarIan has seen white people so far beyond the settlements. He leads the Bush party to a campsite which will provide for their basic needs: water, fuel, and fodder for the animals.

Themes & subjects

Popular Print Disabled BooksIndians of North AmericaOpen Library Staff PicksNatty Bumppo (Fictitious character)FictionHistory

Characters & people

Natty (Fictitious character) BumppoJohn William Ward (1922-)

Setting

West (U.S.)United StatesTo 1848Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

About the author

James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper

15 September 1789 – 14 September 1851

James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel [*The Last of the Mohicans*][1], often regarded as his masterpiece. ([Source][2]) [1]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL77958W/The_last_of_the_Mohicans [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fenimore_Cooper

Author

James Fenimore Cooper

Pages

534

Read time

≈ 13h

Editions

399

Languages

English, German

Publisher

Independently Published

ISBN

9780461865561

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