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

Readers of Cooper recall Leather-Stocking with genuine affection; others, without having read a line of the Leather-Stocking Tales have somehow formed an idea of his person and character.

From The Story of Cooperstown by Birdsall, Ralph

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

In 1823, accordingly, appeared "The Pioneers," itself the pioneer of the five famous stories, which now go collectively under the name of the "Leather-Stocking Tales."

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

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