The Deerslayer, or The First War-Path (1841) was Cooper's last novel in his Leatherstocking tales, but its 1740–1745 time period makes it the first instalment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the Leatherstocking tales, Nattty Bumpo.  The novel's setting is the same as that of the first of the Leatherstocking Tales to be published (1823). The Deerslayer is considered to be the prequel to the rest of the series. 

Fenimore Cooper begins his work by relating the astonishing advance of civilization in New York State, which is the setting of four of his five Leatherstocking Tales.

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