Leatherstocking Tales Leatherstocking Tales The Leatherstocking Tales is a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper, set in the eighteenth century era of development in the primarily former Iroquois areas in central New York. Each novel features Natty Bumppo, a frontiersman known to European-American settlers as "Leatherstocking", "The Pathfinder", and "the trapper". Native Americans call him "Deerslayer", ""La Longue Carabine"" ("Long Rifle" in French), and "Hawkeye". The story dates are derived from dates given in the tales and span the period roughly of 1740-1806. They do not necessarily correspond with the actual dates of the historical events described in
Tales from Watership Down "Watership Down", Hyzenthlay, a doe, rises to the position of Co-Chief Rabbit with her mate, Hazel. A reviewer for "The New York Times" wrote that while it was a "lighthearted companion piece" to "Watership Down", it was "a little disjointed as a stand-alone volume". The book was praised by another reviewer at Salon.com, who wrote: "The pure, unfamiliar feelings evoked in "The Story of the Three Cows" and in the gory "The Hole in the Sky" — just two of the stories here—persist for quite a while after you've finished reading them". Tales from Watership Down Tales from Watership Down