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At the
period of the tale, they dwelt in open hostility; national feuds
passing from generation to generation. The power of the republic has
done much to restore peace to these wild scenes, and it is now
possible to travel in security, where civilised man did not dare to
pass unprotected five-and-twenty years ago.
The reader, who has perused the two former works, of which this is the
natural successor, will recognise an old acquaintance in the principal
character of the story. We have here brought him to his end, and we
trust he will be permitted to slumber in the peace of the just.
J F Cooper
Paris June 1832


THE PRAIRIE

CHAPTER I.
I pray thee, shepherd, if that love or gold,
Can in this desert place buy entertainment,
Bring us where we may rest ourselves and feed.
--As you like it.
Much was said and written, at the time, concerning the policy of
adding the vast regions of Louisiana, to the already immense and but
half-tenanted territories of the United States.


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