F or many generations, James Fenimore Cooper was a household name. And his books were household books, so to speak. Everyone read the Leatherstocking Tales — a series of five novels, including ...

HOOSICK FALLS — When it comes to identifying the 18 th century upstate New York backwoodsman who inspired author James Fenimore Cooper to create the legendary hero for the five novels that form ...

The Father of Us All James Fenimore Cooper, once the most familiar of American writers, has by now become very nearly the strangest. He is ...

THE LETTERS AND JOURNALS OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (2 vols., 444 pp. & 420 pp.)—edited by James Franklin Beard—Belknap Press of Harvard University ($20). The first American novelist to ...

Illustrated with Steel Engravings from Drawings by Darley. New York: W. A. Townsend & Co. THE "British Museum, it is said, has accumulated over twenty-seven thousand novels written since the ...

FENIMORE COOPER'S HOME; Plot in Cooperstown to be Turned into a Park by the Clark Estate. LEATHERSTOCKING CAVE FOUND Daughter of the Novelist Living at an Advanced Age -- Other Members of the ...

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“Wolf Hall” producer Playground is developing a series for the BBC based on James Fenimore Cooper’s historical series of novels known collectively as the “Leatherstocking Tales,” which ...