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Essay Archive - Cooper's "Deerslayer": View of the Native Americans
Cooper's "Deerslayer": View of the Native Americans
James Fenimore Cooper was born on September 15, 1789 in Burlington,
New Jersey. He was the son of William and Elizabeth (Fenimore) Cooper, the
twelfth of thirteen children (Long, p. 9). Cooper is known as one of the
first great American novelists, in many ways because he was the first
American writer to gain international followers of his writing. In
addition, he was perhaps the first novelist to "demonstrate...that native
materials could inspire significant imaginative writing" (p. 13). In
addition his wr....
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