TY - BOOK AU - Cooper,James Fenimore TI - The Pioneers; Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna AV - PS PY - 2000/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Historical fiction KW - Adventure stories KW - Bumppo, Natty (Fictitious character) -- Fiction KW - Frontier and pioneer life -- New York (State) -- Fiction KW - New York (State) -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Fiction KW - American fiction KW - United States -- History -- 1783-1815 -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pioneers_(novel); Release date is 2000-08-01; Produced by Gary Rezny and David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Pioneers; Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna" by James Fenimore Cooper is a historical novel published in 1823. Set on the New York frontier, it follows elderly frontiersman Natty Bumppo and Judge Marmaduke Temple as they clash over environmental stewardship and the transformation of wilderness into settlement. When a mysterious young hunter arrives, loyalties are tested between those who respect the land and settlers driven by wastefulness. As civilization encroaches and a Mohican elder faces his fate, the novel explores whether humanity can coexist with nature or will destroy it through greed. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2275 ER -