The Deerslayer The Deerslayer The Deerslayer, or The First War-path (1841) was the last of James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales" to be written. Its 1740-1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the Leatherstocking tales, Natty Bumppo. The novel's setting on Otsego Lake in central, upstate New York, is the same as that of "The Pioneers", the first of the "Leatherstocking Tales" to be published (1823). "The Deerslayer" is considered to be the prequel to the rest of the series. Fenimore Cooper begins his work by relating the astonishing advance of civilization in
Tales from Bective Bridge Tales from Bective Bridge Tales from Bective Bridge is a collection of ten short stories concerning rural Ireland and its populace by the writer, Mary Lavin, born an American, who returned along with her family to Ireland in 1925. The collection was first published in 1942, with the assistance of Lord Dunsany, who also wrote the introduction to the collection when first published. The collection established her as a writer of note, and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1943. The bridge of the title, Bective Bridge, lies not far from what was her home, Abbey Farm, near