Hawkeye, a scout, leads a small band of Americans fleeing from the British and their Indian allies in the French and Indian War

The last of the Mohicans

"Der Wildtöter" (engl. "The Deerslayer, or The First War Path") ist ein 1841 veröffentlichter Abenteuer und Gesellschaftsroman des amerikanischen Schriftstellers James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851). "Der Wildtöter" erschien als letzter Band des fünfteiligen Lederstrumpf-Zyklus. Im chronologischen Handlungsablauf der Serie bildet der Roman den ersten Band. Die deutschsprachige Ausgaben des Romans erschien 1841 in einer Übersetzung von Gustav Pfizer und unter dem Titel "Der Hirschtöter" von Otto von Czarnowski.

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The Deerslayer, or The First Warpath (1841) was the last of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking tales to be written. Its 1740-1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the Leatherstocking tales, Natty Bumppo. The novel's setting on Otsego Lake in central, upstate New York, is the same as that of The Pioneers, the first of the Leatherstocking tales to be published (1823). The Deerslayer is considered to be the prequel to the rest of the Leatherstocking tales. Fenimore Cooper begins his work by relating the astonishing advance of civilization in New York State, which is the setting of four of his five Leatherstocking tales.

The Deerslayer

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 Set in frontier America in the midst of the French-Indian war, as the French are attempting to overthrow an English fort, Cooper's story follows Alice and Cora Munro, pioneer sisters who are trying to find their way back to their father, an English commander. Guided by an army major and Magua, an Indian from the Huron tribe, they soon meet Hawk-eye, a frontier scout and his Mohican Indian companions Chingachgook and Uncas.

 Magua is not all that he seems and the sisters are kidnapped. In The Last of the Mohicans, Cooper sets Indian tribe against Indian tribe and lays bare the brutality of the white man against the Mohicans.

The Last of the Mohicans

En 1757, au coeur de la guerre qui déchire les camps français et britannique autour de la conquête du Nouveau Monde, deux soeurs, Alice et Cora, doivent rejoindre leur père, le colonel Munro. Escortées par trois membres de la tribu indienne des Mohicans, eux-mêmes en lutte contre la tribu des Hurons, les deux jeunes filles découvrent la cruauté de l'histoire dont elles sont les témoins.

Le dernier des Mohicans

The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is a historical novel, the first published of the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. While The Pioneers was published in 1823, before any of the other Leatherstocking Tales, the period of time it covers makes it the fourth chronologically.

The story takes place on the rapidly advancing frontier of New York State and features a middle-aged Leatherstocking (Natty Bumppo), Judge Marmaduke Temple of Templeton, whose life parallels that of the author's father Judge William Cooper, and Elizabeth Temple (the author's sister Susan Cooper), of Cooperstown. The story begins with an argument between the Judge and the Leatherstocking over who killed a buck, and as Cooper reviews many of the changes to New York's Lake Otsego, questions of environmental stewardship, conservation, and use prevail. The plot develops as the Leatherstocking and Chingachgook begin to compete with the Temples for the loyalties of a mysterious young visitor, "Oliver Edwards, " the "young hunter, " who eventually marries Elizabeth. Chingachgook dies, exemplifying the vexed figure of the "dying Indian, " and Natty vanishes into the sunset. For all its strange twists and turns, 'The Pioneers' may be considered one of the first ecological novels in the United States.

The Pioneers

Avril 1775, alors que le port de Boston est frappé d'embargo par décision du Parlement de Grande-Bretagne, une voile battant pavillon anglais s'approche. Les curieux assemblés, craignant que le vaisseau ne soit que le premier d'une flotte amenant des renforts pour une armée déjà trop nombreuse, voient débarquer parmi quelques innocents passagers un jeune officier anglais et un vieillard qu'on croirait arrivé au terme le plus reculé de la vieillesse... Avec ce roman paru en 1824, s'amorce la principale partie de l'oeuvre historique du romancier, tout à la gloire de sa patrie naissante. 

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