Brewer's: Leatherstocking

(Natty). The nickname of Natty Bumpo (q.v.), in Cooper's novel, called The Pioneers. A half-savage and half-Christian hero of American wild life.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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