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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 4 | 4 | Browse | Search |
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cooper , James Fenimore 1789 -1851 (search)
Cooper, James Fenimore 1789-1851
Author; born in Burlington.
N. J., Sept. 15, 1789:
James Fenimore Cooper. studied at Yale College, but did not graduate.
He was six years in the naval service.
Choosing literature as a profession, he took the path of romance, and wrote and published in the course of his life thirty-two volumes of fiction, the most famous of which were his Leatherstocking tales.
He wrote a History of the United States Navy, in 2 volumes; Lives of American naval officers; Battle of Lake Erie; Gleanings in Europe; Sketches of Switzerland; and a comedy.
He died in Cooperstown, N. Y., Sept. 14. 1851.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)