Download or read book The Pathfinder Illustrated written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pathfinder (1840), Cooper's most picturesque novel and the fourth of the five Leather stocking Tales, is a naval story set on the Great Lakes of the 1750s. Fashioned from Cooper's own experience as a midshipman on Lake Ontario in 1808-09, the novel revives Natty Bumppo (who had died in The Prairie), and illuminates Cooper's interest in American history with his concern for social development.