The Pathfinder Author:James Fenimore Cooper In many ways, The Pathfinder represents both the climax and the apogee of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. Chronologically in its hero's life, it is central, third in the five-novel saga of Natty Bumppo, alias the Deerslayer, alias Hawkeye, alias the Pathfinder, alias Leatherstocking. It deals with the decisive years when French... more » or English supremacy in North America was being battled out at many an obscure blockhouse and along many a nameless watercourse. The setting of the Pathfinder is Lake Ontario in the last months of French success before the Plains of Abraham in 1759.« less