James Fenimore Cooper: Der letzte Mohikaner. Vollstandige Ausgabe The Last of the Mohicans. Erstdruck in drei Banden, John Miller, London 1826. Deutsche Ubersetzung von Johann Friedrich Karl Leonhard Tafel, Verlag S. G. Liesching 1841. Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2016. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Thomas Cole, Die letzten Mohikaner, 1827. Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt.

James Fenimore Cooper: Der Wildtoter. Ein Lederstrumpf-Roman Vollstandige Ausgabe The Deerslayer, or The First War Path, Erstdruck 1841. Hier in der ersten deutschen Ubersetzung von Gustav Pfizer von 1842, ursprunglich unter dem Titel Der Wildtodter. Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2016, 2. Auflage. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Albert Bierstadt, Das Camp des Trappers, 1861. Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt.

James Fenimore Cooper: Die Ansiedler an den Quellen des Susquehanna. Ein Lederstrumpf-Roman Vollstandige Ausgabe Erstdruck 1823 unter dem Titel The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna. Hier in der Ubersetzung von Carl Kolb, 1842, Samuel Gottlieb Liesching Verlag, Stuttgart. Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2016. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage. Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt.

James Fenimore Cooper: Die Steppe (Die Prarie) Ein Lederstrumpf-Roman Vollstandige Ausgabe Erstdruck 1827 unter dem Titel The Prairie: A Tale. Hier in der Ubersetzung von Carl Friedrich Meurer, 1839, Verlag Johann David Sauerlander, Frankfurt am Main. Auch erschienen unter dem Titel Die Prarie. Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2016. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Charles M. Russell, Die Siedler beobachten, 1895. Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt.

James Fenimore Cooper: Der Pfadfinder oder Das Binnenmeer Ein Lederstrumpf-Roman Vollstandige Ausgabe Erstdruck 1840 unter dem Titel The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea. Hier in der Ubersetzung von Carl Kolb, 1841, Samuel Gottlieb Liesching Verlag, Stuttgart. Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2016. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Thomas Cole, Amerikanische Seelandschaft, 1844. Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt.

The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas become embroiled in the bloody battles of the French and Indian War. The abduction of the beautiful Munro sisters by hostile savages, the treachery of the renegade brave Magua, the ambush of innocent settlers, and the thrilling events that lead to the final tragic confrontation between rival...

A restless white youth raised by Indians, Natty Bumppo is called Deerslayer for the daring that sets him apart from his peers. But he has yet to meet the test of human conflict. In a tale of violent action and superbly sustained suspense, the harsh realities of tribal warfare force him to kill his first foe, then face torture at the stake. Still yet another kind of initiation awaits him when he discovers not only the ruthlessness of "civilized" men, but also the special danger of a woman's will. His reckless spirit transformed into mature courage and moral certainty, the Deerslayer emerges to...

The third novel in James Fennimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, starring the heroic Natty Bumppo. Vigorous, self-reliant, amazingly resourceful, and moral, Natty Bumppo is the prototype of the Western hero. A faultless arbiter of wilderness justice, he hates middle-class hypocrisy. But he finds his love divided between the woman he has pledged to protect on a treacherous journey and the untouched forest that sustains him in his beliefs. A fast-paced narrative full of adventure and majestic descriptions of early frontier life, Indian raiders, and defenseless outposts, The Pathfinder set the...

The story takes place on the rapidly advancing frontier of New York State and features a middle-aged Leatherstocking (Natty Bumppo), Judge Marmaduke Temple of Templeton, whose life parallels that of the author's father Judge William Cooper, and Elizabeth Temple (the author's sister Susan Cooper), of Cooperstown. The story begins with an argument between the Judge and the Leatherstocking over who killed a buck, and as Cooper reviews many of the changes to New York's Lake Otsego, questions of environmental stewardship, conservation, and use prevail. The plot develops as the Leatherstocking and...

The Prairie: A Tale (1827) is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, the third novel written by him featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero, who is simply known as "the trapper" in it. Chronologically The Prairie is the fifth and final installment of the Leatherstocking Tales. It depicts Natty in the final year of his life still proving helpful to people in distress on the American frontier. Continuity with The Last of the Mohicans is indicated by the appearance of the grandson of Duncan and Alice Heyward of The Last of the Mohicans and the noble Pawnee chief Hard Heart,...