James Fenimore Cooper

Right.

And if, if you hear Twain on, uh, James Fenimore Cooper, who's trying desperately to sound like an English writer, it's devastating.

You don't wanna be James Fenimore Cooper.

Now, we want to move-

But you do wanna be something else

Yeah.

I think it's a Fenimore Cooper thing.

James Fenimore, yeah.

He wrote the original book.

Even at the age of 60, he is still a Hercules.

In form and face, he is the most pronounced type of the ideal Fenimore Cooper dime-novel Indian in America.

Mr. Edward Esmond, a companion to Mr. Thomas during the season he had Reign in the Face and his fellows at the World's Fair in Chicago, and afterward at Coney Island in his charge, gave me the information in this note.

Note, Reign in the Face afterward drew a picture or map of the Battle of the Little Bighorn on the back of a handsome buckskin hunting shirt.

His father was Actually Wyoming's first state game warden and a rancher, homesteader, pioneer mountain man.

I mean he wanted to, the reason he came over from Sweden was because he had read Fenimore Cooper and wanted to go live in the mountains and do that kind of stuff.

And so he followed his dream and did that.

The family's kind of been here in northwestern Wyoming and eastern Idaho area for literally ever since.

In the first place, it will be a good thing for me to spend about three weeks with the Downings and to make excursions with them to some of the friends on the Hudson, some of the best people in the country, as they say.

Among these is Washington Irving, who, together with Fenimore Cooper, was the first to make us in Sweden somewhat at home in America.

Miss Catherine Sedgwick is expected here in a few days.

I shall be glad to see her and thank her for the pleasure we have received from her Redwood and Hope Leslie.

He loved the touch of romance.

When he first found Fenimore Cooper's books, he drank them in as one parched might drink at a spring.

He reveled in the tales of courage and heroic deeds.

He gloated over records of their trailing and scouting by red man and white.

doing this in the period.

So if you have skepticism, I think it's not unreasonable, okay? In one version, she goes to Canada because the novels of James Fenimore Cooper have given her romantic ideas about indigenous spiritual traditions.

She says she's in New Orleans, Texas, Mexico, and the Andes.

And she goes toward India and Ceylon.