Leatherstocking Tales

The Leatherstocking Tales is a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper, set in the eighteenth century era of development in the primarily former Iroquois areas in central New York. In order of publication: • The Pioneers (1823) • The Last of the Mohicans (1826) • The Prairie (1827) • The Pathfinder (1840) • The Deerslayer (1841) In order of internal book chronology: • The Deerslayer (story date: 1740-1755) • The Last of the Mohicans (story date: 1757) • The Pathfinder (story date: 1758-1759) • The Pioneers (story date: 1793) • The Prairie (story date: 1804)