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The Deerslayer he demonstrates his fitness as a warrior-saint by passing a series of moral trials and revealing a keen, though untutored, aesthetic sensibility.

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In The Pathfinder he is explicitly described as an American Adam

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The Pathfinder (1840) and The Deerslayer (1841). These novels, in which Natty becomes the centre of romantic interest for the first time, carry the idealization process further.

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Cooperstown, New York

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The Prairie (1827) in which, now very old and philosophical, Leatherstocking dies, facing the westering sun he has so long followed. (The five novels of the series were not written in their narrative order.) Identified from the start with the vanishing wilderness and its natives, Leatherstocking was an unalterably elegiac figure, wifeless and childless, hauntingly loyal to a lost cause.

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The Last of the Mohicans (1826) takes the reader back to the French and Indian wars of Natty’s middle age, when he is at the height of his powers.

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“I look upon the redmen to be quite as human as we are ourselves, Hurry. They have their gifts, and their religion, it's true; but that makes no difference in the end, when each will be judged according to his deeds and not according to his skin.”
This looks into morality

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Both Cooper and his public were fascinated by the Leatherstocking character.  He was encouraged to write a series of sequels in which the entire life of the frontier scout was gradually unfolded.

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The Spy soon brought him international fame and a certain amount of wealth.

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September 14, 1851

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The Spy (1821), was based on another British model, Sir Walter Scott’s “Waverley” novels, stories of adventure and romance set in 17th- and 18th-century Scotland. The Spy Cooper broke new ground by using an American Revolutionary War setting (based partly on the experiences of his wife’s British loyalist family) and by introducing several distinctively American character types. Like Scott’s novels of Scotland, The Spy is a drama of conflicting loyalties and interests in which the action mirrors and expresses more subtle internal psychological tensions.

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Precaution (1820) was a plodding imitation of Jane Austen’s novels of English gentry manners. It is mainly interesting today as a document in the history of American cultural colonialism and as an example of a clumsy attempt to imitate Jane Austen’s investigation of the ironic discrepancy between illusion and reality.

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founded a frontier settlement at the source of the Susquehanna River (now Cooperstown, New York) and served as a Federalist congressman during the administrations of George Washington and John Adams

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member of a respectable New Jersey Quaker family

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American novelist

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“Judith:"And where, then, is your sweetheart, Deerslayer?"

Deerslayer: "She's in the forest, Judith - hanging from the boughs of the trees, in a soft rain - in the dew on the open grass - the clouds that float about in the blue heavens - the birds that sing in the woods - the sweet springs where I slake my thirst - and in all the other glorious gifts that come from God's Providence!”
Shows notice of nature

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Burlington, New Jersey

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author of the novels of frontier adventure known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring the wilderness scout called Natty Bumppo, or Hawkeye. They include The Pioneers (1823), The Last of the Mohicans (1826), The Prairie (1827), The Pathfinder (1840), and The Deerslayer (1841).

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Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. “The Deerslayer.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 21 Jan. 2014, www.britannica.com/topic/The-Deerslayer.
Cooper, James Fenimore. “The Deerslayer Quotes by James Fenimore Cooper.” Goodreads, Goodreads, 1841, www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/15188375-the-deerslayer-or-the-first-war-path'

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September 15, 1789