On the wild shores of Otsego Lake, the “Glimmerglass”, the young hunter Natty Bumppo, called Deerslayer, travels with the boastful Hurry Harry to the floating fortress of the trapper Thomas Hutter and his daughters Judith and Hetty. With war breaking out between the English and French, he helps his Delaware friend Chingachgook rescue his betrothed from the Hurons and faces his first armed enemy.
The last-written but earliest-set of the Leatherstocking Tales; its view of Native peoples is that of 1841. Download the free EPUB.