The Pioneers

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James Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper (1789 1851) was raised in Cooperstown, New York, the town his father founded. In 1808 and 1809, he served aboard a vessel stationed on Lake Ontario at Oswego, New York. He put his knowledge of the Great Lakes and seamanship to good use in The Pathfinder, which is set in the same locale. He began writing novels in the 1820s mainly as a financial expedient. A prolific author, Cooper wrote dozens of books in a number of different fields--fiction, history, politics, travel--over the next three decades. He died on September 14, 1851.