Publisher's Synopsis
The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper Ishmael and his family, Ellen and Abiram, are slowly making their way across the virgin Prairies of the American Midwest. They are looking for a homestead two years after the Louisiana Purchase, when they meet trapper Natty Bumppo. Natty has left New York state to find a home where he cannot hear the forests being cut down. He has walked coast to coast, to the Pacific Ocean (although Lewis and Clark hadn't yet completed that trek). After a theft, the trapper helps the family relocate their wagons, including one with mysterious contents. The book was first published in 1827. The novel's timeline is 1804. This is book 5 of 5 in the Leatherstocking Tales, the sequel to The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder and The Pioneers.
