Chapel Hill, NC: University Of North Carolina Press, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An analysis of the five novels which make up the Leather-Stocking tales - The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, and so on, published between 1823 and 1841, and generally considered America's first major works of fiction - in the order in which they were written. Preface, list of principal works of Cooper, works cited, notes, index. xxvii, 292 pp. ISBN: 0-8078-19751.