My rating for The Pathfinder is a star lower (I'd have given four and a half stars if I could), in order to give the 1841 novel pride of place, and as a reflection of the fact that the moral conflicts here aren't as marked.
#The pathfinder movie reviews series
But even if they reach that haven safely, in this wartime wilderness environment, their adventures will be far from over!Ĭooper's literary vision, prose style, and the general strengths of his writing here are comparable to what's exhibited in The Deerslayer, the series installment that I just read before this one. When the book opens, we find two men and two women near the lake, headed for this fort and they soon meet Natty and a couple of other men, sent from the fort to see them safely in.
English civilian settlement at this time didn't extend to the lake, but the British army maintained a fort on the southern shore, at the mouth of the Oswego River. Our setting here is on and around Lake Ontario, the easternmost of the Great Lakes, which then and now formed the northern boundary of the western part of New York. The French and Indian War is still raging Cooper gives the date only as the late 1750s, but it's after the events of The Last of the Mohicans, which is set in 1757, so 1759 would probably be a best guess. Protagonist Natty Bumpo ("Pathfinder" is another of his many nicknames) here is in his late 30s. Published in 1840, this was the second-to-last of the Leatherstocking Tales to be written, though in terms of the series' internal chronology, it's the third.
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