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 enjoy ...

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.

The lake itself—dubbed “Glimmerglass” by James Fenimore Cooper in his Leatherstocking Tales—lives up to its poetic name, especially in the golden hours of morning and evening when the water takes on ...

Netflix’s “American Primeval” promises to show “America like never before.” But as fans of frontier stories know, there’s really nothing new under the Western sun.

"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 of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known ...

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 ...

There is controversy surrounding Nathaniel Shipman who is said to be the inspiration for Natty Bumppo aka Deerslayer aka Leatherstocking for James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Series of which ...

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 ...

James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), author of The Leatherstocking Tales, was lauded by some as America’s greatest novelist.