Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper

[Herman Melville]

The Leatherstocking Tales is a series of 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 list below of the books in the series may be sorted either by publication date or chronologically by story action, by clicking on the double-arrow symbol at the top of the appropriate column:
Publication
Date Story
Dates TitleSubtitle1841184117441744The DeerslayerThe First War Path1826182617571757The Last of the MohicansA Narrative of 17571840184017591750sThe PathfinderThe Inland Sea1823182317931793The PioneersThe Sources of the Susquehanna; A Descriptive Tale1827182718041804The PrairieA Tale
Note that the "Story Dates" above are the dates given by Cooper in the tales themselves. They don't all correspond with the actual dates of historical events described in the series. This may have been done for convenience's sake, for instance to avoid making Leatherstocking 100 years old when he traveled the Kansas plains in The Prairie.
The Natty Bumppo character is generally believed to have been inspired, at least in part, by the real-life squatter David Shipman and the pioneer man Thomas Leffingwell.

The above portion is taken from wikipedia. I love this series. Discuss it here.

Favorite character: Lord Chingachgook.