James Fenimore Cooper--The Historian James Fenimore Cooper is, in his own right, a historian. Cooper is responsible for passing on views of early America that will never be available to us again. He helped many Americans view Indians and other ethnic groups as people and not “savages”. Historical events greatly influenced Coopers writing. Time periods such as the Revolutionary war and the American exploration of the West were often the backgrounds for Coopers most successful …showed first 75 words of 1237 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1237 total…Cooper one of the most popular novelists from the Romantism period of American literature.  Works Cited Campbell, Derek. “The Spy”. Fall 1996. Online. Yahoo. 7 Mar 1999 http://bradley.bradley.edu/~dlb/dccoper.html Cooper, James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans. Online. Bibliomania wysiwyg://34/http://www.bibliomania.com/Fiction/ Mohicans/chap00.html Long, Robert Emmet. James Fenimore Cooper. Continuum.1990. Motley, Warren. The American Abraham. Cambridge University Press. 1987. Ringe, Donald A. James Fenimore Cooper. G. K. Hall & Co.. 1988.