That novel, set before The Pathfinder, was criticized for committing 114 out of a possible 115 "offenses against literary art" by Mark Twain.
Billy Kirby kills maple trees to get their sap, and the townspeople waste thousands of fish by letting them rot on the shores of Lake Otsego in the first published book in this series. That novel was only the fourth chronologically; in the third, the protagonist of the series falls in love with Mabel Dunham, only to lose her to Jasper, and in the first, he uses chess pieces found in a chest to help the "daughters" of Thomas Hutter ransom him from the Hurons. That novel, set before The Pathfinder, was criticized for committing 114 out of a possible 115 "offenses against literary art" by Mark Twain. The Pioneers and The Deerslayer are two works in, for 10 points, this series of five novels featuring Natty Bumppo, the second of which is The Last of the Mohicans, written by James Fenimore Cooper?
Billy Kirby kills maple trees to get their sap, and the townspeople waste thousands of fish by letting them rot on the shores of Lake Otsego in the first published book in this series.
{Leatherstocking Tales} [accept The {Pioneers} before the first “{series}”]