Table Of ContentCover Page: 3
Title Page Page: 3
Copyright Page: 3
Contents Page: 3
Dedication Page: 3
The Pathfinder: or, The Inland Sea Page: 3
Preface Page: 3
Chapter 1 Page: 9
Chapter 2 Page: 22
Chapter 3 Page: 37
Chapter 4 Page: 50
Chapter 5 Page: 64
Chapter 6 Page: 80
Chapter 7 Page: 93
Chapter 8 Page: 111
Chapter 9 Page: 128
Chapter 10 Page: 141
Chapter 11 Page: 157
Chapter 12 Page: 178
Chapter 13 Page: 191
Chapter 14 Page: 213
Chapter 15 Page: 228
Chapter 16 Page: 245
Chapter 17 Page: 258
Chapter 18 Page: 271
Chapter 19 Page: 292
Chapter 20 Page: 325
Chapter 21 Page: 345
Chapter 22 Page: 356
Chapter 23 Page: 374
Chapter 24 Page: 396
Chapter 25 Page: 414
Chapter 26 Page: 426
Chapter 27 Page: 436
Chapter 28 Page: 450
Chapter 29 Page: 463
Chapter 30 Page: 475
The Deerslayer: or, The First War-Path Page: 482
Preface Page: 485
Chapter 1 Page: 495
Chapter 2 Page: 510
Chapter 3 Page: 526
Chapter 4 Page: 542
Chapter 5 Page: 558
Chapter 6 Page: 576
Chapter 7 Page: 591
Chapter 8 Page: 608
Chapter 9 Page: 626
Chapter 10 Page: 644
Chapter 11 Page: 662
Chapter 12 Page: 679
Chapter 13 Page: 698
Chapter 14 Page: 716
Chapter 15 Page: 733
Chapter 16 Page: 751
Chapter 17 Page: 769
Chapter 18 Page: 788
Chapter 19 Page: 800
Chapter 20 Page: 819
Chapter 21 Page: 836
Chapter 22 Page: 855
Chapter 23 Page: 869
Chapter 24 Page: 888
Chapter 25 Page: 909
Chapter 26 Page: 928
Chapter 27 Page: 946
Chapter 28 Page: 964
Chapter 29 Page: 978
Chapter 30 Page: 990
Chapter 31 Page: 1005
Chapter 32 Page: 1018
Chronology Page: 1031
Note on the Texts Page: 1044
Notes Page: 1049
The Pathfinder Page: 1049
The Deerslayer Page: 1050
Footnotes Page: 1051
Library of America Series Page: 1051
Description:When Cooper's most memorable hero, Leatherstocking, started an American tradition by setting off into the sunset in The Pioneers, one early reader said of his departure, "I longed to go with him." American readers couldn't get enough of the Leatherstocking saga (collected in two Library of America volumes) and, fourteen years after he portrayed the death of Natty Bumppo in The Prairie, Cooper brought him back in The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea (1841). During the Seven Years War, just after the events narrated in The Last of the Mohicans, Natty brings the daughter of a British sergeant to her father's station on the Great Lakes, where the French and their Indian allies are plotting a treacherous ambush. Here, for the first time, he falls in love with a woman, before Cooper manages bring off Leatherstocking's most poignant, and perhaps his most revealing, escape. The Deerslayer (1842) brings the saga full circle and follows the young Natty on his first warpath. Instinctively gifted in the arts of the forest, pious in his respect for the unspoiled wilderness on which he loves to gaze, honorable to friend and foe alike, stoic under torture, and cool under fire, the young Leatherstocking emerges as Cooper's noblest figure of the American frontier. Enacting a rite of passage both for its hero and for the culture he comes to represent, this last book in the series glows with a timelessness that readers everywhere will find enchanting. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.