Crossword-Solution: LEATHERSTOCKING 15 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 25

She was told he was the most renowned hunter of that portion of the State,--it was after the Revolution,--a being of great purity of character and of as marked peculiarities; and that he was known in that region of country by the name of the Leatherstocking.

When Cutbird, a superb woodsman and veritable Leatherstocking, narrated to Boone the story of his adventures, it only confirmed Boone in his determination to find the passage through the mountain chain leading to the Mesopotamia of Kentucky.

This romantic episode--which gave Fenimore Cooper the theme for the most memorable scene in one of his Leatherstocking Tales--had an even more romantic sequel in the subsequent marriage of the three pairs of lovers.

These were the days when the Knickerbocker school in New York brought independence and reputation to American literature, when Irving, although abroad, worked the rich mine of Hudson River traditions, and Cooper utilized his early experience in the frontier around Lake Otsego to write his "Leatherstocking Tales." Movements for social amelioration abounded.

Irving, Cooper of the Leatherstocking Series, possibly Hawthorne, and quite certainly the author of "Huckleberry Finn" would have turned over pages for many a day without seeing their names at all.