The Prairie

James Fenimore Cooper

⏱ 8 minAdventure classic

Very old and driven west to the treeless plains, the trapper Natty Bumppo lives out his final days among the Sioux and Pawnee, helps a party of emigrants against a lawless squatter clan, and dies at sunset facing west with his last word, Here. Cooper's elegiac close to the Leatherstocking saga.

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