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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Cooper, James Fenimore

Cooper, James Fenimore
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Brief Summary Of "The Prairie"

Shortly after 1803, on the great plains of the United States, an old
trapper about eighty years old (Natty Bumppo) meets a small caravan traveling
from the Mississippi River. The group includes Ishmael Bush, his wife
(Esther), his children, Esther's niece (Ellen Wade), Esther's brother (Abiram
White) and Dr. Battius, a curious scientific man who prides himself on his
skills as medical doctor and naturalist. Old Natty finds Ellen keeping a
rendezvous (meeting) with her young lover, Paul Hovey (a bee hunter), who has
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