“tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.”
James Fenimore Cooper book The Deerslayer
Source: The Deerslayer
Quotes from bookThe Deerslayer
The Deerslayer, or The First War-Path was the last of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales to be written. Its 1740-1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the Leatherstocking tales, Natty Bumppo. The novel's setting on Otsego Lake in central, upstate New York, is the same as that of The Pioneers, the first of the Leatherstocking Tales to be published . The Deerslayer is considered to be the prequel to the rest of the series. Fenimore Cooper begins his work by relating the astonishing advance of civilization in New York State, which is the setting of four of his five Leatherstocking Tales.
“Tis grand! 'tis solemn! 'tis an education of itself to look upon!”
James Fenimore Cooper book The Deerslayer
The Deerslayer (1841), Ch. 6
