 Various figures in American folklore and literature typify the pioneer.James Fenimore Cooper's "The Deerslayer" (1841) became the most successful of his early series, the Leatherstocking Tales, about pioneer life in the Province of New York.Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House on the Prairie" series, published a century later in 1932–1943 but set in the 1870s and 1880s, typified later depictions of pioneer families.