What 19th century author wrote the pentalogy of Leatherstocking Tales novels featuring the protagonist Natty Bumppo?
Natty Bumppo Natty Bumppo Nathaniel "Natty" Bumppo is a fictional character and the protagonist of James Fenimore Cooper's pentalogy of novels known as the "Leatherstocking Tales". Natty Bumppo, the child of white parents, grew up among Delaware Indians and was educated by Moravian Christians. In adulthood, he is a near-fearless warrior skilled in many weapons, chiefly the long rifle. He is most often shown alongside his Mohican foster brother Chingachgook and nephew Uncas. Bumppo is featured in a series of novels by James Fenimore Cooper collectively called the "Leatherstocking Tales". The novels in the collection are as follows: The tales recount significant
Natty Bumppo events in Natty Bumppo's life from 1740 to 1806. Before his appearance in "The Deerslayer," Bumppo went by the aliases "Straight-Tongue,” "The Pigeon,” and the "Lap-Ear.” After obtaining his first rifle, he gained the sobriquet "Deerslayer." He is subsequently known as "Hawkeye" and ""La Longue Carabine"" in "The Last of the Mohicans", as "Pathfinder" in "The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea", as "Leatherstocking" (from which the series' title is drawn) in "The Pioneers", and as "the trapper" in "The Prairie". Bumppo has been portrayed most often in adaptions of "The Last of the Mohicans". He was portrayed by Harry Lorraine