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Nathaniel "Natty" Bumppo is a fictional character and the protagonist of James Fenimore Cooper's pentalogy of novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales. He appears throughout the series as an archetypal American ranger, and has been portrayed many times in a variety of media in popular culture.
The release of Hutter and Hurry Hurry struggles with the Native Americans, but is finally captured. This novel introduces Natty Bumppo as "Deerslayer," a young frontiersman in early 18th-century New York, who objects to the practice of taking scalps, on the grounds that every living thing should follow "the gifts" of its nature, which would keep European Americans from taking scalps.
Bumppo is featured in the comic book series Jack of Fables (2006–2011), along with Slue-Foot Sue, as trackers hired to capture other "Fables". In Alan Moore's comic series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (1999–2007), Natty Bumppo is featured as a member of the group assembled by Lemuel Gulliver , alongside other literary characters ...
The Pioneers was the first novel of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales series, featuring the character Natty Bumppo, a resourceful white American living in the woods. The story focuses on the development of a "wilderness" area (as classified by European Americans) as a settled European-American community with refinements.
The Prairie: A Tale (1827) is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper, the third novel written by him featuring Natty Bumppo.His fictitious frontier hero Bumppo is never called by his name, but is instead referred to as "the trapper" or "the old man".
Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman Natty Bumppo, Major Duncan Heyward, singing teacher David Gamut, and the Indians Chingachgook and Uncas, the latter two being the novel's title characters. These characters are sometimes seen as a microcosm of the budding American society, particularly with regard to their racial ...
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It is the only book in the Leatherstocking series to show Natty Bumppo in love, and the first of Cooper's books which made important imaginative use of the Great Lakes. [1] The sobriquet "The Pathfinder" was subsequently attached to explorer John C. Frémont.