The Prairie

novel by Cooper
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The Prairie, novel by James Fenimore Cooper, published in two volumes in 1827, the third of five novels published as The Leatherstocking Tales. Chronologically, The Prairie is the fifth in the series, ending with the death of the octogenarian frontiersman Natty Bumppo, called Hawkeye.

The Prairie extols the vanishing American wilderness, disappearing because of the westward expansion of the American frontier. It concerns Natty Bumppo’s travels with a party of settlers across the unsettled prairie of the Great Plains. Bumppo ultimately rejects life with the settlers and goes to live out his days in a Pawnee village, away from the encroaching civilization he distrusts.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper.