Download or read book The Deerslayer Annotated written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Deerslayer, or The First War Path (1841) was James Fenimore Cooper's last novel in his Leatherstocking Tales. 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 (1823). 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.