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James Fenimore Cooper. The Deerslayer (Barnes & Noble Classics Series). New York, New York, U.S.A.: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005
1593082118 Clean, tight and unmarked. Book Description ?Live by your own council. Be brave in the face of the unknown. Be always fair.? -Natty Bumppo, The Deerslayer One of the greatest heroes in American literature, Natty Bumppo is the rugged frontiersman of James Fenimore Cooper?s Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels that includes The Last of the Mohicans and The Deerslayer. Although the final volume to be written, The Deerslayer is the first in the chronology of Natty Bumppo?s life, depicting the character as a young man testing himself in the wilderness, and against enemies, for the first time. Set in the 1740?s just as the French and Indian wars have begun, the novel opens as Natty Bumppo?known as Deerslayer?and his friend Hurry Harry travel to Tom Hutter?s house in upstate New York. Hurry plans to marry Tom?s beautiful daughter Judith, while Deerslayer has come to help his close friend Chingachgook save his bride-to-be, Wah-ta-Wah, from the Huron Indians. When war breaks out, and Hurry and Tom are captured by Indians, Deerslayer must go on his first warpath to rescue them. One of the earliest novels to be considered truly ?American," The Deerslayer is a masterpiece of suspense, adventure, and romance. About the Author Bruce L. R. Smith is a fellow at the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author or editor of sixteen scholarly books, and he continues to lecture widely in the United States and abroad. Excerpt. ? Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. From Bruce L. R. Smith?s Introduction to The Deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper?s literary reputation has undergone striking vicissitudes over the years. Hailed in his lifetime (1789?1851) as America?s first great novelist and lionized throughout the Western world, he fell into the literary doldrums at the end of the nineteenth century (in his own country at least) and languished there for many years. So complete was his fall that he became almost an object of ridicule among critics and literary commissioners. Later generations found it hard to imagine that he had once been an icon in the American literary canon. More recently, however, there has been a revival of interest in Cooper and a reconsideration of his literary reputation. His death in Cooperstown on September 14, 1851, and a memorial service held the next month in New York City brought tributes from Daniel Webster, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Washington Irving, Henry Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, and other leading American men of letters. In Europe, Thackeray, Balzac, Goethe, Scott, Lafayette, Carlyle, Sand, and Sue were among the many admirers of Cooper?s writings. So were, later, Joseph Conrad, who paid tribute in particular to Cooper?s seafaring works, and D. H. Lawrence, who was so inspired by Cooper?s treatment of the frontier that he came to spend several years living in the American West. Cooper was probably even more popular in Europe than he was in his own country, and he earned much of the money he made as America?s first successful professional writer from overseas sales of his works. A controversialist, Cooper provoked unease from his countrymen as well as veneration. His popularity waned after his return to America in 1833 from a seven-year absence spent traveling in Europe; upon his return, he criticized the materialism and crassness he saw in America that had changed for the worse. He was not afraid to join in political fights and to hit back at enemies?he became something of a public scold in his later years, and he emulated his father?s recourse to the courts to redress wrongs. He stirred the ire of Whig newspaper publishers who had always distrusted him and disliked, in particular, his novels Homeward Bound (1838) and Home as Found (1838). He was variously assailed at different times for being too Jacksonian and hostile to authority, and for being too aristocratic and class conscious. It is doubtful, however, whether Cooper really felt comfortable with any political party, and his political ideas certainly did not add up to a coherent political philosophy. He was nominally a Jackson Democrat but had a strong distrust of populist sentiments and of demagogues who stirred up the uneducated masses. Although a charming and gregarious man in his youth, Cooper came to be almost a recluse in later years and at times displayed a gift for making enemies. Many of the attacks on Cooper, though, were libelous, for he won the suits he instituted. Cooper was wedded to his upstate New York region but was also a cosmopolitan who traveled widely; he was a romantic spinner of tales but also a realist who closely observed social mores, manners, and class status even in his novels set in the wilderness. Cooper was an optimist but one with a paranoid streak and a dark side. He lived mostly in the company of women but wrote mostly about men, male friendships, and heroes who broke free of or who never knew the bonds of domesticity. Cooper was as hard a man to understand for his contemporaries as he is for us now. Was he a reactionary or a man ahead of his times, an apologist for white America or a champion of Native Americans? Did he affirm the conquest of the wilderness or was he an early ecologist? As Robert Emmet Long comments, ?Two centuries after his birth, he remains an American enigma? (James Fenimore Cooper, p. 13; see ?For Further Reading?). Yet for all of the controversy his life stirred, Cooper?s literary reputation remained largely intact until the end of the nineteenth century. He was, indeed, a cultural icon in a broad sense. His fiction redefined the past for the country, invented the idea of the Western frontier, and gave Americans a mythic sense of themselves and their destiny. He was a patron of the visual arts. Cooper?s writings stimulated interest in American history and fostered the professional writing of history, even though his novels often subordinated historical reality to archetype and myth. His interest in the Navy was genuine and was grounded in firsthand experience, and he was familiar with many of the personages he wrote about in The History of the Navy of the United States of America (1839), which was a classic study of its kind. Cooper?s friend George Bancroft, the distinguished Harvard historian, interpreted the American Revolution in terms similar to the story lines and subtexts of Cooper?s novels dealing with the revolution, and he patterned his style of narrative history writing after Cooper?s narrative techniques. Moreover, Cooper did much to fashion and to expand the popular audience for his novels (and for the writers who followed him). His works were issued and reissued after his death..

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Granger, Amos P. REMARKS OF HON. A. P. GRANGER OF NEW YORK, In the House of Representatives, January 21, 1859, On the bill for the payment for Indian depredations on the people of Georgia and Alabama. (Washington, DC: Buell & Blanchard, Printers, 1859).

- Octavo, pamphlet bound with gray cloth tape between gray boards backed with blue cloth tape with a typed paper label on the front board. The homemade binding is stained & soiled with a piece out of the top corner of the front board. The label is soiled with a piece out of the top right corner. 7 pages plus colophon. 1 signature is detached. The pages are darkened & chipped with some staining to the inner edges. The binding very slightly overlaps the first page of text with loss on the left side of a few letters. Ex-library with a handwritten sticker on the front board & a library pocket partially removed from the inside rear board. Good working copy. <p>Amos Phelps Granger [1789-1866] was a U.S. Representative from New York and a cousin of Francis Granger. He served as captain in the War of 1812 at Sackets Harbor and on the Canadian border. He was Trustee of the city of Syracuse from 1825 to 1830, and delivered the address of welcome to General Lafayette when he visited Syracuse in 1825. <p>Granger opposes the payment of compensation to the people of Georgia and Alabama, partly because he says it will lead to many more claims which the Government cannot afford to pay, but also because "...It was the white people, and not the Indians, that were the aggressors....These Indians had a clear and undoubted right to these lands when these depredations commenced. They had held them from time immemorial, long before Columbus was born; and they claimed their title was from God..."

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Child, Maria L: Letters from New York -1st and 2nd Series (2 Vols) New York C.S.Francis & Co 1847
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A wonderful series - rare to find both together. Note - 1st series published 1847/2nd series published 1848. Some topics from the 1st series, Washington Temperance Society, Hoboken, Weehawken, The new year celebrations, agreat fire, origin of manhattan, staten island, Snug Harbor, Blackwell's Island, womens rights, indians. From the 2nd series--Christmas, Valentine's Day, Fourth of July celebrations, Union Park, Steamboat, Excursion, prision association. Books are in good condition -some foxing. Some blurred pencil inscriptions. 1st Series(3rd Print)2nd Series (5th Prt Cloth 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

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