James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) is an American writer, whose works, even during the author’s lifetime, gained enormous popularity among readers both in the United States and in European countries. His books tell about the heroism of the brave conquerors of the Wild West, mastering the virgin nature of America, about the tragic fate of the indigenous inhabitants of the continent - the Indians, dying under the onslaught of the advancing civilization, about the life of old patriarchal America. The collection includes: the novel “Pioneers, or At the Origins” Soskweganny,” which opens the well-known series of books about “Leatherstocking,” the hunter and tracker Natty Bumppo, and the novel “Wyandotte, or Cabin on the Hill.”