Fenimore Cooper is one of the first American writers to win fame and recognition from readers in our country. Cooper's legacy is great and diverse: more than thirty novels, historical works, journalistic pamphlets. The novel "St. John's Wort" is the first book in a pentalogy dedicated to the adventures of the hunter Nathaniel Bumpo .In this novel, Cooper turns to the hero's youth. The life of St. John's Wort (this is one of Natty Bumppo's nicknames) is inseparable from the life of the surrounding forests, rivers, lakes, and from the romantic world of Indian legends. Here Natty Bumppo begins a friendship with the brave Mohican Chingachgook. The action in the novel takes place in the forties of the 18th century.