Leather-Stocking Tales

American  

[leth-er-stok-ing] / ˈlɛð ərˌstɒk ɪŋ /

noun

1. a series of historical novels by James Fenimore Cooper, comprising The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer.

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Example Sentences

Long before I had lent Gavotte a set of the Leather-Stocking Tales, which he had read aloud to Zebbie.

From Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Stewart, Elinore Pruitt

The "Leather-Stocking Tales" of Cooper are the American epic.

From Confessions and Criticisms by Hawthorne, Julian

Cooper himself comes to the defense of his Indians in the preface of the Leather-Stocking Tales.

From The Story of Cooperstown by Birdsall, Ralph

"Leather-Stocking Tales, The," 40, 55, 239; Cooper's opinion of, 241.

From James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford

If anything from the pen of the writer of these romances," he said, toward the close of his life, "is at all to outlive himself, it is unquestionably the series of 'The Leather-Stocking Tales.'

From James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford