Historical Stories of American Pioneer Life ILLUSTRATIONS

The Last of the Mohicans

The Pathfinders

The Deerslayer

The Pioneers

The Prairie

by

J. Fenimore Cooper

"The Walter Scott of America"

Adapted to Younger Readers

by

"The Best Known Writer of Juvenile Books in America"

Embellished with Ten Magnificent Lithographs

and numerous original drawings in the text

copyright 1897

Contents and List of

Water-Color Reproductions:

The Deerslayer

- Hetty and Hist in the Iroquois Encampment

- The Peril of Deerslayer

The Last of the Mohicans

- Cora a Prisoner to the Hurons

- Hawkeye and the Bear take the Fox Prisoner

The Pathfinder

- Pathfinder Shoots at the Target

- The Pathfinder Rescues Mabel

The Pioneers

- Leatherstocking to the Rescue

- The Young Hunter Saved the Sleigh from its Danger

The Prairie

- Mahtonee Surprises the Sleeping Sentinel

- The Pawnee and the Palefaces

James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 \u2013 September 14, 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Native American life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. He also wrote numerous sea stories, and his best-known works are five historical novels of the frontier period known as the Leatherstocking Tales. [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fenimore_Cooper]

The Leatherstocking Tales is a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper, set in the eighteenth century era of development in the primarily former Iroquois areas in central New York. Each novel features Natty Bumppo, a frontiersman known to European-American settlers as "Leatherstocking", "The Pathfinder", and "the trapper". Native Americans call him "Deerslayer", "La Longue Carabine" ("Long Rifle" in French), and "Hawkeye". [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leatherstocking_Tales]

Illustrated by:

Michal Elwiro Andriolli, Lithuanian: Mykolas Elvyras Andriolis, Italian: Elviro Michele Andriolli (2 November 1836, in Vilnius \u2013 23 August 1893, in Naleczów) was a Polish - Lithuanian[1] painter and architect of Italian descent. He is notable for his illustrations to Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz, as well as a distinctive style of villas built outside Warsaw. [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micha%C5%82_Elwiro_Andriolli]

Engraved by:

Edmund Evans (23 February 1826 \u2013 21 August 1905) was a prominent English wood engraver and colour printer during the Victorian era. [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Evans]