The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper, Fiction, Classics, Historical, Action&Adventure

Natty steps out of the woods exactly the way Americans have liked their frontier heroes ever since: the tall, lean man of& 34;robust and enduring health.& 34; Cooper puts on a turkey shoot to prove Natty& 39;s skill with a rifle, and throws the frontiersman into a conflict that would echo in practically every Western to come. Natty roams freely. He is the Deerslayer, but he shoots the wrong deer on land that isn& 39;t his. The man of frontier justice learns an early lesson about civilized law in the settlement, and he does what only the frontier allows: He follows the setting sun. Cooper sends him off in a style the writer called& 34;descriptive,& 34; a style the modern reader might call cinematic -- a flow of pictures. Natty shoulders his rifle, calls the hounds to follow him, and no one with a sense of adventure wants to stay behind.