01457cam a2200289 i 4500 342426962 TxAuBib 20180321120000.0 180321|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781606649664 No OCLC 32.95 1606649663 No OCLC 32.95 TxAuBib rda Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. The pioneers : or, the sources of the Susquehanna / James Fenimore Cooper. Aegypan Press. 387 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Leatherstocking tales ; 3 Originally published in 1823, the novel is the first of Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales and the one that incorporates most fully his own experience of growing up in a town on the American frontier. He provides brilliant pictures of village life, from Christmas dinner and a turkey shoot, to church and tavern, deer hunt and forest fire, and village courtship and courtroom drama. The heart of the novel is a conflict over who owns America, and by what concept of right. 20180321. Bumppo, Natty (Fictitious character) Fiction. Frontier and pioneer life. New York (State) History 1775-1865 Fiction. Leatherstocking tales ; 3.