The Pioneers

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The Pioneers is an early 19th-century historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper that forms part of his Leatherstocking Tales series, depicting frontier life and environmental change in upstate New York.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf frontier novel
historical novel
novel
author James Fenimore Cooper
countryOfOrigin United States
depicts environmental change
frontier life
featuresCharacter Leatherstocking
followsInInternalChronology The Last of the Mohicans
genre adventure fiction
historical fiction
hasLiterarySeriesOrder first published of the Leatherstocking Tales
hasProtagonistType frontiersman
hasTheme conflict between civilization and wilderness
environmental conservation
man and nature
settlement of the American frontier
language English
literaryMovement American Romanticism
mainCharacter Natty Bumppo
notableFor early depiction of American environmental issues
portrayal of changing frontier society
originalLanguage English
partOfSeries Leatherstocking Tales
precedesInInternalChronology The Prairie
publicationCentury 19th century
setInRegion New York State
setInTimePeriod early 19th century
settingCountry United States NERFINISHED
settingLocation upstate New York


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