The Prairie: A Tale (novel)

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Title The Prairie

Cover of 1964 Signet Classic paperback
Author James Fenimore Cooper
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.