Pioneers, or at the origins of Saskuihanna

“Pioneers, or at the origins of Saskuihanna” (1823) - the earliest in time (and the fourth in the chronology of events) part of the Pentagogy of James Fenimore Cooper about a brave hunter, conductor and intelligence officer Nathaniel Bampo, nicknamed a leather stocking, about whose youth and mature years He told in the later novels “St. John"s wort”, “The Last of Mogican” and “Rangers”.
1793, the coast of Lake in the state of New York. The seventy -year -old Nathaniel, “one of the first among those pioneers who open new lands in the country,” lives his age in a miserable shack along with the drunk Indian John Mogikanin - in the past, a noble and bravely brewer leader Chingachguk. However, civilization is rapidly stepping on the once reserved edge, and, accused of violating the rules of hunting and resistance to the authorities, which lost the hut and buried an old friend, a leather stocking is in the end to leave the axes of the new settlers a raised place and go far to the west, under the west, under the west, under The habitual for him from a young age of the canopy of a virgin forest