The Deerslayer

James Fenimore Cooper

⏱ 8 minAdventure classic

The young dead-shot hunter Natty Bumppo, called Deerslayer, comes for the first time to war on the wild lake of Glimmerglass with his Mohican friend Chingachgook, kills his first man by his own stern forest code, and returns to certain torture rather than break his given word. Cooper's earliest Leatherstocking romance.

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