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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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Otsego Lake is chiefly famous as the scene of events in two of Cooper's Leather-Stocking Tales.

From The Story of Cooperstown by Birdsall, Ralph

The set 10.00 Half calf 25.00 Leather-Stocking Tales.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

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

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

From Confessions and Criticisms by Hawthorne, Julian

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

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

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