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The famous "Leather-Stocking Tales" followed, and the world made the acquaintance of the America of the Indian and the pioneer in "The Deerslayer," "The Last of the Mohicans," "The Pathfinder," "The Pioneers," and "The Prairie."
From Historic Boyhoods by Holland, Rupert Sargent
Tastes differ; and there are those—possibly the majority of his readers—who prefer the Indian associations of The Last of the Mohicans, The Pioneers, &c. to the salt-water scenery of the other class of works.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 418 Volume 17, New Series, January 3, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
"Last of the Mohicans, The," 52-55, 56, 58, 66, 71, 72, 239, 291.
From James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford
In "The Pioneers," "The Last of the Mohicans," "The Prairie," "The Pathfinder," and "The Deer-slayer" figures the character of Leatherstocking, than whom no fictitious personage has a greater claim to interest.
From A History of English Prose Fiction by Tuckerman, Bayard
Arranged according to the order of events, The Deerslayer should be the first of this remarkable series, followed by The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, and The Prairie.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various
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