The Pioneers

James Fenimore Cooper

⏱ 8 minAdventure classic

Old Leatherstocking clings to the vanishing forest freedom as a raw frontier town rises around him under a land-owning judge, falls foul of the new game-laws, and defies the whole apparatus of civilisation before striking out alone toward the setting sun. Cooper's founding Leatherstocking novel.

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