Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Leatherstocking tales

found: Wikipedia, August 25, 2014(The Leatherstocking Tales is a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper, each featuring the main hero Natty Bumppo, known by European settlers as "Leatherstocking," 'The Pathfinder", and "the trapper" and by the Native Americans as "Deerslayer," "La Longue Carabine" and "Hawkeye"; The Deerslayer - publication date: 1841, story dates: 1740-1755; The Last of the Mohicans - publication date: 1826, story dates: 1757; The Pathfinder - publication date 1840, story dates: 1750s; The Pioneers - publication date 1823, story dates: 1793; The Prairie - publication date: 1827, story dates: 1804)

found: Clark, Gayle. The Leatherstocking tales ... in review, via WWW, viewed August 25, 2014(The set of five historical novels known as The Leatherstocking Tales is a complex and adventure-packed trip into the lush and unpredictable wilderness of 18th Century America; The Deerslayer; The Last of The Mohicans; The Pathfinder; The Pioneers; The Prairie) - http://www.mohicanpress.com/mo06058.html

found: NLS minibibliographies. The leatherstocking tales by James Fenimore Cooper, via Library of Congress website, August 25, 2014(The Leatherstocking Tales, by American novelist, historian, and social critic James Fenimore Cooper, relate the adventures of frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Known as Leatherstocking, Hawkeye, and Pathfinder, among other names, Bumppo is introduced as a young man in The Deerslayer, the first novel in terms of content but the last to be published. Following is a list of the five Leatherstocking Tales in chronological order of their contents: The Deerslayer; or, The First Warpath - 1841; The Last of the Mohicans - 1826; The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea - 1840; The Pioneers; or, The Sources of the Susquehanna - 1823; The Prairie - 1827) - http://www.loc.gov/nls/bibliographies/minibibs/cooper.html