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 ...

Tucson’s Cooper Street is named for the renowned author of the first detailed novels of frontier life in American literature. James Fenimore Cooper was born in 1789 in Burlington, New Jersey, to ...

The stunning Leatherstocking Golf Course hugs the shore of Otsego Lake, a lake aptly nicknamed “Glimmerglass” by author James Fenimore Cooper.

Fenimore Art Museum: This neoclassical beauty houses treasures that would make any metropolitan museum jealous, all with a lakeside view to boot. Photo credit: gary r In spring, when the gardens begin ...

The trailer for Netflix’s ultraviolent series “American Primeval” promises to show “America like never before.” But as fans of frontier stories know, there’s really nothing new under ...

For those who may be unaware, but it was based on a book. "The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757" is a historical romance novel written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1826. It is the second book ...

Cooperstown, New York, is a go-to destination for baseball lovers, but this lakeside village also offers breathtaking scenery, history, outdoor activities, and arts and culture. Here’s how to ...

The mystery of who inspired James Fenimore Cooper's legendary hero Natty Bumppo comes down to an 18th century man buried in Hoosick Falls or maybe his brother.

Two hundred years ago, in 1823, James Fenimore Cooper spun that little image of Locke’s into one of the great American novels, The Pioneers. The first of what would become his five Leatherstocking ...

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 ...

Emerson came on the scene at a time when America had not yet developed much of a literary tradition. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), author of The Leatherstocking Tales, was lauded by some as ...