Book Cover of the Day:
February 3, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Book Cover of the Day:
I don't know. They look pretty happy to me.
June 5, 2026 at 2:01 PM
I don't know. They look pretty happy to me.
Yeah I remember when I first encountered Twain's excoriation of Cooper and feeling mildly hurt—"I loved The Deerslayer!"—until I remembered I read The Deerslayer when I was 10 lol
August 11, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Yeah I remember when I first encountered Twain's excoriation of Cooper and feeling mildly hurt—"I loved The Deerslayer!"—until I remembered I read The Deerslayer when I was 10 lol
This 1929 #LargeFormat edition of #JamesFenimoreCooper's #Deerslayer features 9 stunning #ColourPlates by #NCWyeth! Slight #oldbooksmell. $50. #Booksky #literature #art #ChildrensBooks #FirstNations #oldbooks #PrettyBooks
March 4, 2026 at 2:35 PM
This 1929 #LargeFormat edition of #JamesFenimoreCooper's #Deerslayer features 9 stunning #ColourPlates by #NCWyeth! Slight #oldbooksmell. $50. #Booksky #literature #art #ChildrensBooks #FirstNations #oldbooks #PrettyBooks
Number 3 is driving me crazy!
'the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others. But this detail has often been overlooked in the "Deerslayer" tale.'
'the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others. But this detail has often been overlooked in the "Deerslayer" tale.'
August 11, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Number 3 is driving me crazy!
'the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others. But this detail has often been overlooked in the "Deerslayer" tale.'
'the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others. But this detail has often been overlooked in the "Deerslayer" tale.'
At least we can all agree Twain murdered James Fenimore Cooper
February 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
At least we can all agree Twain murdered James Fenimore Cooper
I also only know The Deerslayer from the game “Authors” and did not realize it was also in the LOTMCU (Last of the Mohicans Cinematic Universe)
I’m kind of intrigued now!
I’m kind of intrigued now!
August 12, 2026 at 5:41 AM
I also only know The Deerslayer from the game “Authors” and did not realize it was also in the LOTMCU (Last of the Mohicans Cinematic Universe)
I’m kind of intrigued now!
I’m kind of intrigued now!
Listening to The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper.
September 23, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Listening to The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper.
When you’ve hit so many deer with your car that they just call you Deerslayer
November 4, 2023 at 11:51 PM
When you’ve hit so many deer with your car that they just call you Deerslayer
"I'm terribly sorry, the second quarter submissions will be late because I found a cool book" somehow never works as an excuse but in my defense, I had just finished The Deerslayer and it was absolutely not my fault that this awesome illustrated edition of The Last of the Mohicans was right. there.
July 1, 2026 at 4:26 AM
"I'm terribly sorry, the second quarter submissions will be late because I found a cool book" somehow never works as an excuse but in my defense, I had just finished The Deerslayer and it was absolutely not my fault that this awesome illustrated edition of The Last of the Mohicans was right. there.
Miss Kate. The Yorkie who thinks she is a German Shepherd. She is our Deerslayer
April 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Miss Kate. The Yorkie who thinks she is a German Shepherd. She is our Deerslayer
A regular wanted to talk about James Fenimore Cooper's "The Deerslayer", so we finished and discussed it this past week, and poof! now we have a book club 😂
Next is John Muir's "Travels in Alaska" and some Sarah Orne Jewett (the short stories in the Library of America volume).
Suggestions, anyone?
Next is John Muir's "Travels in Alaska" and some Sarah Orne Jewett (the short stories in the Library of America volume).
Suggestions, anyone?
September 14, 2026 at 7:39 AM
A regular wanted to talk about James Fenimore Cooper's "The Deerslayer", so we finished and discussed it this past week, and poof! now we have a book club 😂
Next is John Muir's "Travels in Alaska" and some Sarah Orne Jewett (the short stories in the Library of America volume).
Suggestions, anyone?
Next is John Muir's "Travels in Alaska" and some Sarah Orne Jewett (the short stories in the Library of America volume).
Suggestions, anyone?
I'm just now about halfway through Deerslayer (the prequel to Last of the Mohicans). The racialized social theory goes a bit heavy, but there are some truly lovely descriptive passages, and there's no doubt that Cooper loved a world that was lost already by the time he was fifty.
August 12, 2026 at 5:37 AM
I'm just now about halfway through Deerslayer (the prequel to Last of the Mohicans). The racialized social theory goes a bit heavy, but there are some truly lovely descriptive passages, and there's no doubt that Cooper loved a world that was lost already by the time he was fifty.
This 1929 #LargeFormat edition of #JamesFenimoreCooper's #Deerslayer features 9 stunning #ColourPlates by #NCWyeth! Slight #oldbooksmell. $50. #Booksky #literature #art #ChildrensBooks #FirstNations
December 20, 2024 at 6:25 PM
This 1929 #LargeFormat edition of #JamesFenimoreCooper's #Deerslayer features 9 stunning #ColourPlates by #NCWyeth! Slight #oldbooksmell. $50. #Booksky #literature #art #ChildrensBooks #FirstNations
Line I was not expecting in Deerslayer (1841):
"with some such surprise as an American of our own times would be apt to betray at a suggestion that the great modern but vacillating ruler of things human, public opinion, might be wrong."
"with some such surprise as an American of our own times would be apt to betray at a suggestion that the great modern but vacillating ruler of things human, public opinion, might be wrong."
August 12, 2026 at 5:40 AM
Line I was not expecting in Deerslayer (1841):
"with some such surprise as an American of our own times would be apt to betray at a suggestion that the great modern but vacillating ruler of things human, public opinion, might be wrong."
"with some such surprise as an American of our own times would be apt to betray at a suggestion that the great modern but vacillating ruler of things human, public opinion, might be wrong."
I don't love car ownership as a mega-city-dweller but I would definitely buy a SUV named "Deerslayer"
January 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I don't love car ownership as a mega-city-dweller but I would definitely buy a SUV named "Deerslayer"
My top ten list of literary criticism – no. 7: Mark Twain’s review of The Deerslayer. Some light relief. My apologies to any fans of Fenimore Cooper. www.gutenberg.org/files/3172/3...
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences, by Mark Twain
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January 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
My top ten list of literary criticism – no. 7: Mark Twain’s review of The Deerslayer. Some light relief. My apologies to any fans of Fenimore Cooper. www.gutenberg.org/files/3172/3...
The Deerslayer 1957 is today's film on my Western playlist
youtu.be/OEKeFgWB4l4 In colonial America, wanderer Deerslayer gets involved with Tom Hutter, a bigoted trapper, and his two contrasting daughters
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youtu.be/OEKeFgWB4l4 In colonial America, wanderer Deerslayer gets involved with Tom Hutter, a bigoted trapper, and his two contrasting daughters
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Please buy the physical media
The Deerslayer 1957 #freefilms #western #adventure #oldwest @flickerfreefilms99 #noads #cowboys
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April 21, 2026 at 11:29 PM
The Deerslayer 1957 is today's film on my Western playlist
youtu.be/OEKeFgWB4l4 In colonial America, wanderer Deerslayer gets involved with Tom Hutter, a bigoted trapper, and his two contrasting daughters
Please subscribe to the YouTube Channel.
Please buy the physical media
youtu.be/OEKeFgWB4l4 In colonial America, wanderer Deerslayer gets involved with Tom Hutter, a bigoted trapper, and his two contrasting daughters
Please subscribe to the YouTube Channel.
Please buy the physical media
📣 New Podcast! "The Deerslayer (Full Audiobook) | The First Warpath | Frontier Honor, Courage & Faith | J.F. Cooper Part 1" on @Spreaker #adventure #american #audiobook #bumppo #classic #cooper #deerslayer #early #fenimore #fiction #frontier #historical #james #leatherstocking #natty #novel
The Deerslayer (Full Audiobook) | The First Warpath | Frontier Honor, Courage & Faith | J.F. Cooper Part 1
✝️ Catholic Star-Rated Review ★★★★★ (5/5) A profound tale of moral integrity set against the untamed American frontier, The Deerslayer reflects timeless truths about virtue, conscience, and the natural law written on the human heart. James Fenimore Cooper presents Natty Bumppo as a man striving to live rightly—even amid violence and cultural conflict. The novel explores themes of justice, restraint, and honor, echoing the Catholic understanding that true courage is guided not by impulse, but by moral truth. In a world without formal structures of law, the Deerslayer’s inner compass becomes his guide—an image of conscience rightly formed. A compelling audiobook for those who appreciate adventure grounded in ethical depth and the struggle to live virtuously.
www.spreaker.com
April 8, 2026 at 8:14 AM
📣 New Podcast! "The Deerslayer (Full Audiobook) | The First Warpath | Frontier Honor, Courage & Faith | J.F. Cooper Part 1" on @Spreaker #adventure #american #audiobook #bumppo #classic #cooper #deerslayer #early #fenimore #fiction #frontier #historical #james #leatherstocking #natty #novel
Did you know that when he was just 38 years old, James Fenimore Cooper wrote a moving & powerful final novel in the Deerslayer series, with Natty Bumppo continuing to fight for the little guy up until his peaceful death? That & more in today's post in the Last of the Mohicans anniversary series!
So for the next post in my CooperStudying blog series, two profoundly different Deerslayer novels published within a year of one another, & one crucial throughline between them--Natty's willingness to fight for Native Americans.
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February 4, 2026: Fenimore Cooper Studying: The Last of the Mohicans & The Prairie – Black and White and Read All Over
[200 years ago Wednesday, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans was published. That’s one of many Cooper novels with a lot to tell us about his and our America, so this week I’ll AmericanSt...
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February 5, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Did you know that when he was just 38 years old, James Fenimore Cooper wrote a moving & powerful final novel in the Deerslayer series, with Natty Bumppo continuing to fight for the little guy up until his peaceful death? That & more in today's post in the Last of the Mohicans anniversary series!
I had to read The Deerslayer for summer reading before tenth grade. I did it, and got 100% on the test on the first day of school. But I was left with zero desire to read more of his work.
On this day, in 1789, #JamesFenimoreCooper was born. One of the most popular American authors of the 19th century, he is best known today for his 'Leatherstocking Tales,' which explored colonial American history. Have you read any Cooper? #💙📚 #Booksky
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September 15, 2026 at 3:09 PM
I had to read The Deerslayer for summer reading before tenth grade. I did it, and got 100% on the test on the first day of school. But I was left with zero desire to read more of his work.
If you live in the Catskills deerslayer becomes your car’s middle name
January 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
If you live in the Catskills deerslayer becomes your car’s middle name
📣 New Podcast! "The Deerslayer (Full Audiobook) | The First Warpath | Frontier Honor, Courage & Faith | J.F. Cooper Part 2" on @Spreaker #adventure #american #audiobook #bumppo #classic #cooper #deerslayer #early #fenimore #fiction #frontier #historical #james #leatherstocking #natty #novel
The Deerslayer (Full Audiobook) | The First Warpath | Frontier Honor, Courage & Faith | J.F. Cooper Part 2
✝️ Catholic Star-Rated Review ★★★★★ (5/5) A profound tale of moral integrity set against the untamed American frontier, The Deerslayer reflects timeless truths about virtue, conscience, and the natural law written on the human heart. James Fenimore Cooper presents Natty Bumppo as a man striving to live rightly—even amid violence and cultural conflict. The novel explores themes of justice, restraint, and honor, echoing the Catholic understanding that true courage is guided not by impulse, but by moral truth. In a world without formal structures of law, the Deerslayer’s inner compass becomes his guide—an image of conscience rightly formed. A compelling audiobook for those who appreciate adventure grounded in ethical depth and the struggle to live virtuously.
www.spreaker.com
April 8, 2026 at 8:14 AM
📣 New Podcast! "The Deerslayer (Full Audiobook) | The First Warpath | Frontier Honor, Courage & Faith | J.F. Cooper Part 2" on @Spreaker #adventure #american #audiobook #bumppo #classic #cooper #deerslayer #early #fenimore #fiction #frontier #historical #james #leatherstocking #natty #novel