The Prairie: A Tale (novel)
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Cover of 1964 Signet Classic paperback |
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Author | James Fenimore Cooper |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Series | Leatherstocking Tales |
Genre(s) | Adventure novel |
Publisher | Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey—Chestnut-Street |
Released | 1827 |
Media type | hardback |
Pages | 528 p. in two volumes |
Preceded by | The Last of the Mohicans (1826) |
The Prairie: A Tale (1827) is an epic novel of James Fenimore Cooper, the third novel written by him featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictious frontier hero, who is simply known as "the trapper" in this novel. The Prairie is considered as forming the fifth and final chronological episode of the Leatherstocking Tales.