Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-286) and index
Pioneers (1823) : interrupted prelude -- Last of the Mohicans (1826) : the death of a nation, the denial of a genre -- Prairie (1827) : the uses of memory -- Pathfinder (1840) : a matter of choice -- Deerslayer (1841) : the word and the act, the beginning and the end