"Cover"--"Half Title Page"--"Title Page" -- "Copyright Page" -- "Original Title Page" -- "Original Copyright Page" -- "Dedication Page" -- "Contents" -- "Introduction" -- "Chronology of James Fenimore Cooper" -- "I. Coopers, Jays, and De Lanceys" -- "I. Judge William Cooper" -- "2. The Jay Family" -- "3. The De Lanceys" -- "II. An American Scott: Imitation as Exploration And Criticism" -- "I. The Early Waverley Novels" -- "2. The Spy and Lionel Lincoln" -- "III. The Pioneers" -- "IV. Race in The New World" -- "I. The Last of the Mahicans" -- "2. The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish" -- "v. The Prairie" -- "I. The Hero of the Leatherstocking Tales" -- "2. The Wavering Hero and the Hero of the Leatherstocking Tales" -- "3. The Prairie" -- "VI. An American Gentleman in Europe" -- "VII. Buccaneers of the Land and Sea" -- "I. The Early Sea Romances" -- "2. The Water Witch" -- "VIII. The European Novels" -- "I. The Bravo" -- "2. The Heidenmauer and The Headsman" -- "IX. Home as Found" -- "1. The Old Hero" -- "2. Home as Found" -- "x. The Pathfinder: Leatherstocking in Love" -- "XI. The Deerslayer" -- "XII. The Late Sea Novels" -- "XIII. The Littlepage Trilogy" -- "I. Satanstoe" -- "2. The Anti-Rent Novels" -- "XIV. The Ways of The Hour" -- "I. 'See-wise'" -- "2. Cooper's Last Novels" -- "3. Conclusion