WorkJames Fenimore Cooper

Leatherstocking Tales series

Leatherstocking Tales series (beginning with The Pioneers, 1823; most famously The Last of the Mohicans, 1826), Inferred

James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) · beginning with The Pioneers, 1823; most famously The Last of the Mohicans, 1826

InferredFuller contrasts Forrest's portrayal of the Indian hero with 'Cooper's fancy sketches'

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Documented 1840

Letters

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“it seemed much nearer one's ideal than Cooper's or Miss Sedgwick's fancy sketches”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Inferred Fuller contrasts Forrest's portrayal of the Indian hero with 'Cooper's fancy sketches'