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The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna

The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna

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Number of Chapters: 42

Length: 18 hours and 37 minutes

Language: English

The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is one of the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. The Pioneers was first of these books to be published (1823), but the period of time covered by the book (principally 1793) makes it the fourth chronologically. (The others are The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, and The Prairie.)

The story takes place on the rapidly advancing frontier of New York State and features a middle-aged Leatherstocking (Natty Bumppo), Judge Marmaduke Temple of Templeton, whose life parallels that of the author's father Judge William Cooper, and Elizabeth (the author Susan Cooper), of Cooperstown. The story begins with an argument between the Judge and the Leatherstocking over who killed a buck, and as Cooper reviews many of the changes to his fictional Lake Otsego, questions of environmental stewardship, conservation, and use prevail. The plot develops as the Leatherstocking and Chingachgook begin to compete with the Temples for the loyalties of a young visitor, Oliver Effingham. For all its strange twists and turns, 'The Pioneers' may be considered one of the first ecological novels in the United States. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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00 - Introduction (Gary W. Sherwin)
01 - Chapter 01 (Gary W. Sherwin)
02 - Chapter 02 (Gary W. Sherwin)
03 - Chapter 03 (Gary W. Sherwin)
04 - Chapter 04 (Gary W. Sherwin)
05 - Chapter 05 (Gary W. Sherwin)
06 - Chapter 06 (Gary W. Sherwin)
07 - Chapter 07 (Gary W. Sherwin)
08 - Chapter 08 (Gary W. Sherwin)
09 - Chapter 09 (Gary W. Sherwin)
10 - Chapter 10 (Gary W. Sherwin)
11 - Chapter 11 (Gary W. Sherwin)
12 - Chapter 12 (Gary W. Sherwin)
13 - Chapter 13 (Gary W. Sherwin)
14 - Chapter 14 (Gary W. Sherwin)
15 - Chapter 15 (Gary W. Sherwin)
16 - Chapter 16 (Gary W. Sherwin)
17 - Chapter 17 (Gary W. Sherwin)
18 - Chapter 18 (Bill Boerst)
19 - Chapter 19 (Bill Boerst)
20 - Chapter 20 (Bill Boerst)
21 - Chapter 21 (Bill Boerst)
22 - Chapter 22 (Bill Boerst)
23 - Chapter 23 (Bill Boerst)
24 - Chapter 24 (Bill Boerst)
25 - Chapter 25 (Bill Boerst)
26 - Chapter 26 (Bill Boerst)
27 - Chapter 27 (Bill Boerst)
28 - Chapter 28 (Bill Boerst)
29 - Chapter 29 (Bill Boerst)
30 - Chapter 30 (Bill Boerst)
31 - Chapter 31 (Bill Boerst)
32 - Chapter 32 (Bill Boerst)
33 - Chapter 33 (Bill Boerst)
34 - Chapter 34 (Bill Boerst)
35 - Chapter 35 (Bill Boerst)
36 - Chapter 36 (Bill Boerst)
37 - Chapter 37 (Bill Boerst)
38 - Chapter 38 (Bill Boerst)
39 - Chapter 39 (Bill Boerst)
40 - Chapter 40 (Bill Boerst)
41 - Chapter 41 (Bill Boerst)
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