This novel begins with its main character and Hurry Harry encountering Glimmerglass Lake, where they meet the feeble-minded Hetty and her worldly sister Judith aboard the ark of Thomas Hutter.
At the end of this novel, its main characters are rescued by troops led by Captain Warley. Several characters in this novel open a chest and discover an ivory chess set, allowing them to use rooks carved like elephants as ransom for hostages. Its protagonist repeatedly refuses the offer to marry Sumach, and is briefly saved from torture by the intervention of Hist. This novel begins with its main character and Hurry Harry encountering Glimmerglass Lake, where they meet the feeble-minded Hetty and her worldly sister Judith aboard the ark of Thomas Hutter. Mark Twain lampooned this novel's violations of the rules "governing literary art" in an essay about its author's "literary offenses." This novel was the last written, but the first chronologically, of its author's Leatherstocking Tales. For 10 points, name this novel by James Fenimore Cooper in which a young Natty Bumppo gets the title nickname by killing for the first time.
At the end of this novel, its main characters are rescued by troops led by Captain Warley.
The Deerslayer