The Prairie: Leatherstocking Tales Series, Book 5

by James Fenimore Cooper, Noah Waterman (Narrated by)

Overview

The Prairie marks the final chapter in James Fenimore Cooper's great saga of American frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Though nearly ninety in 1804, Bumppo is still competent as a frontiersman and trapper, now on the Great Plains. Once more he is drawn into conflict with society in the form of an emigrant party led by the surly Ishmael Bush and his miscreant brother-in-law Abiram White. And once again, this great man of nature is called upon to exhibit his courage and resourcefulness to rescue the innocent.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786141685
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	04/20/2009
Series:	Leatherstocking Tales
Edition description:	Unabridged

About the Author

James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), the first major American novelist, was the son of a wealthy landowner who founded Cooperstown, New York. He attended Yale and served in the navy before turning to writing with Precaution (1820), but it was his second book, The Spy (1821), that brought him international fame. After he wrote The Pioneers (1823), public fascination with the character of Natty Bumppo and his use of the American landscape led him to write a series of sequels that gradually unfold the entire life of the frontier scout. The books' popularity reflected the growing interest in the clash between savagery and civilization on the frontier.

Date of Birth:

September 15, 1789

Date of Death:

September 14, 1851

Place of Birth:

Burlington, New Jersey

Place of Death:

Cooperstown, New York

Education:

Yale University (expelled in 1805)