The Pioneers Or The Sources of the Susquehanna

The Pioneers was the first novel of James Fenimore Coopers Leatherstocking Tales series featuring the character Natty Bumppo a resourceful white American living in the woods. The story focuses on the development of a wilderness area (as classified by European Americans) as a settled European-American community with refinements. The story takes place in the fictional town of Тempleton which is said to be modeled after Cooperstown New York founded by Coopers father after the Revolutionary War.