Oak Openings: James Fennimore Cooper

Oak Openings: James Fennimore Cooper - Paperback

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Oak Openings: James Fennimore Cooper - Paperback

Oak Openings: James Fennimore Cooper - Paperback

by James Fenimore Cooper
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by James Fenimore Cooper (Author)

Oak Openings by James Fennimore Cooper. After returning from his European travels in the 1830s, Cooper was persuaded by his nephew, Horace H. Comstock, to invest in Michigan real estate. The Potawatomi had ceded much of their land in central Michigan by 1833 and their former territory became known as "oak-openings." By 1837, Cooper's $6,000 investment was losing value, though he watched as his fellow New Yorkers attempted to colonize the area like honeybees. The experience inspired The Oak Openings; or, The Bee Hunter, and the novel became one of the first representations of Beekeeping in American literature. Though not the first author to use the term "oak openings," Frederick Marryat did so, Cooper popularized the term for the type of oak clad Savannah with the publication of the novel.

Number of Pages: 252
Dimensions: 0.53 x 11.02 x 8.5 IN
Publication Date: December 13, 2017
ISBN9781981656974
Author James Fenimore Cooper
PublisherCreatespace Independent Publishing Platform
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedDecember 2017
LanguageENG- English
Pages252
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper was the great professional American author. He was born on Septenber 15, 1789, in Burlington, New Jersey, and grew up in the frontier village of Cooperstown, New Yorrk, in the heart of the wilderness he was to immortalize in his frontier novels. A high-spirited youth, he was expelled from Yale because of a prank and was finally signed by the navy by his strong-willed father. In 1819 a trfling incident repordatly led to the writing of his first book. Reading aloud to his wife from a populr English novel, he exclaimed, "I could write you a better book myself!" The result was Precausion (1820), which followed in 1821 by his first real success, The Spy.

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