This character flees to the west at the end of the novel, leading to his appearance in a subsequent book in which he is only known as "the trapper.
The useless slaughter of thousands of migrating pigeons by Richard Jones contrasts his greed and waste with the shooting of just one pigeon for food by this character. Later, as sheriff of Templeton, Jones arrests this character for assaulting Hiram Doolittle and for burning his own shack rather than allowing a warrant to be presented to enter it on the pretext of searching for an illegally shot deer. This character flees to the west at the end of the novel, leading to his appearance in a subsequent book in which he is only known as "the trapper." The Pioneers and The Prairie are chronologically the last two books to chronicle the life of, FTP, what protagonist whose earlier life was described in The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer, and The Last of the Mohicans?
The useless slaughter of thousands of migrating pigeons by Richard Jones contrasts his greed and waste with the shooting of just one pigeon for food by this character.
Natty {Bumppo}