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5 unusual facts about James Fenimore Cooper


Hell Gate

Hell Gate is described in James Fenimore Cooper's historical fiction novel The Water Witch, or, The Skimmer of the Seas.

Hell Gate serves as the scene for an exciting pursuit of the brigantine "Water Witch" by the HMS Coquette in James Fenimore Cooper's novel of historical fiction, The Water Witch, or, The Skimmer of the Seas.

History of Troy, New York

The tribe's disappearance from the area is the basis of James Fenimore Cooper's novel Last of the Mohicans.

Machias, Maine

In his History Of The Navy Of The United States Of America James Fenimore Cooper dubbed this engagement "the Lexington of the Seas".

Narragansett Pacer

James Fenimore Cooper described them as: "They have handsome foreheads, the head clean, the neck long, the arms and legs thin and tapered."; however, another source stated, "The hindquarters are narrow and the hocks a little crooked...", but also said, "They are very spirited and carry both the head and tail high. But what is more remarkable is that they amble with more speed than most horses trot, so that it is difficult to put some of them upon a gallop."


Bert Geer Phillips

During his childhood he was influenced by tales of the exploits of American frontiersman Kit Carson and other tales of Western adventure involving American Indians, such as those in James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales.

Capture and rescue of Jemima Boone

The incident is notable for inspiring the chase scene in James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans(1826), in which Lieutenant-Colonel George Munro, the book's protagonist Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo), his adopted Mohican older brother Chingachgook, Chingachgook's son Uncas, and David Gamut follow and overtake the Huron party of Magua who had taken as captives the sisters Cora and Alice Munro.

Clare Benedict

The collection also includes photographs and autographs: an envelope addressed by Queen Victoria to the Queen of Belgium, letters by James Fenimore Cooper, Walter Scott, and Henry James.

East Marion, New York

The Orient Point Inn, which opened in 1796, played host to President Grover Cleveland, poet Walt Whitman, orator Daniel Webster, actress Sarah Bernhardt and author James Fenimore Cooper, who wrote "Sea Lions", set in Orient.

George Palmer Putnam

George Putnam published the books of many classic American authors including his close friend Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Glimmerglass State Park

The park is located at Hyde Bay on the east shore of Otsego Lake, which is the "Glimmerglass" of the Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper, Hyde Hall overlooks the bay and most of the grounds.

Gustav Höcker

He attained a measure of commercial success with adaptations of novels in English, including novels by James Fenimore Cooper (The Deerslayer and two collections of adapted "Leatherstocking Tales"), Robert Montgomery Bird (Nick of the Woods), and Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe).

Michał Elwiro Andriolli

Between 1883 and 1886, he lived in Paris, where he worked on illustrating the French language editions of works by William Shakespeare and James Fenimore Cooper.

Schroon, New York

The "Scaroons" is/are mentioned twice in The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, as a place seen by Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo), Chingachgook and Uncas after they had departed Horicon (the name used by Cooper for Lake George) while traveling northward chasing Magua and his two captives, Cora and Alice Munro.

The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea

The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea is an historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1840.


see also

Glimmerglass

Otsego Lake, called "Glimmerglass" in the Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper