Leatherstocking Tales Series of James Fenimore Cooper

A series of adventure tales featuring the hero Natty Bumppo, known to European settlers as "Leatherstocking," and by the Native Americans as "Pathfinder," "Deerslayer," or "Hawkeye".

1 - The Deerslayer - or, The First Warpath

2 - The Last of the Mohicans - A Narrative of 1757

3 - The Pathfinder - or, The Inland Sea

4 - The Pioneers - The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale

5 - The Prairie - A Tale

The Last of the Mohicans (1826)

Hawkeye and his Mohican companions Chingachgook and Uncas escort the Munro sisters, Cora and Alice, through the woods of New York to Fort William Henry. Also in the expeditin party are British army Major Duncan Heyward and a psalmist named David Gamut. Along the way they are forced to fight against Hurons led by the evil Magua, which leads to an encounter with another American Indian tribe called the Delaware -- a development which will prove crucial at the end of the novel.

The Pioneers (1823)

The story takes place on the rapidly advancing frontier of New York State and features a middle-aged Leatherstocking (a.k.a. Natty Bumppo) and Judge Marmaduke Temple of Templeton, whose life parallels that of the author's father Judge William Cooper of Cooperstown.