The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper. The Prairie: A Tale (1827) is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper, the third novel written by him featuring Natty Bumppo. The story opens with Ishmael, his family, Ellen and Abiram slowly making their way across the virgin prairies of the Midwest looking for a homestead, just two years after the Louisiana Purchase, and during the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. They meet the trapper (Natty Bumppo), who has left his home in New York state to find a place where he cannot hear the sound of people cutting down the forests. In the years between his other adventures and this novel, he tells us only that he has walked all the way to the Pacific Ocean and seen all the land between the coasts (a heroic feat, considering Lewis and Clark hadn

Media	Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released	December 12, 2017
ISBN13	9781981657513
Publishers	Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages	260
Dimensions	216 × 280 × 14 mm · 607 g
Language	English

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