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Prairie, The

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noun

  1. a historical novel (1827) by James Fenimore Cooper.


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Her childhood reads like “Little House on the Prairie: The Nightmare Edition.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2017

"The Pioneers," "The Last of the Mohicans," "The Prairie," "The Pathfinder," and "The Deerslayer" are among the best of his tales of frontier life.

From McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes

"Prairie, The," 61, 71, 73, 76, 95, 239, 283, 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

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