James Fenimore Cooper

The intention of this simply told personal life of James Fenimore Cooper, the creator of American romance, is to have all material au thentic. The pictures of men, women, places and things are, as nearly as possible, of Cooper s association with them to reproduce a background of his time and to make the man not the
author its central foreground figure. From everv available source since the earliest mention of the author s name, both in print and out, material for these pages has been collected. In this wide gleaning in the field of letters a rich harvest from able and brilliant pens the gleaner hereby expresses grateful appreciation
of these transplanted values. Much, precious in worth and attractive in interest, comes into these pages from the generous and good among the relatives, friends, and admirers of Fenimore Cooper. And more than all others, the author s grand-nephew, the late Mr. George Pomeroy Keese, of Cooperslown, New York, has paid rich and rare tribute to the memory of his uncle, with whom when a boy he came in living touch..