Leatherstocking Tales

The Leatherstocking Tales is a series of five novels by American writer <a href="/c/books/credit/25932/james-fenimore-cooper/">James Fenimore Cooper</a>, set in the eighteenth century era of development in the primarily former Iroquois areas in central New York. In order of publication: • <a href="/c/books/book/455157/the-pioneers/">The Pioneers</a> (1823) • <a href="/c/books/book/441191/the-last-of-the-mohicans/">The Last of the Mohicans</a> (1826) • <a href="/c/books/book/455155/the-prairie/">The Prairie</a> (1827) • <a href="/c/books/book/455150/the-pathfinder/">The Pathfinder</a> (1840) • <a href="/c/books/book/455138/the-deerslayer/">The Deerslayer</a> (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)