The first American warship on the Great Lakes.
The infant United States Navy - where he helped supervise the construction of Ran away to sea, and after a year as a merchant seaman became a Midshipman in Hills of Otsego, he had gone on to school in Albany and college at Yale. After a childhood spent among the woods and The settlement his father had built at the southern tip of Lake Otsego, the source Success of his first important stories: The Spy, The Pioneers, and The Pilot.īorn in New Jersey, Cooper had been brought as an infant to Cooperstown, Novelist, James Fenimore Cooper - fresh from the unexpected and enormous Joining the group for part of their tour was a rising young American On their return trip they paused for half a day Of Saratoga, Lake George and its relics of the French and Indian Wars, Hudson Valley: Albany and the Great Falls of Cohoes, the Mineral Water springs And like otherĮarly tourists, they included on their itinerary the well-known sites of the upper The seas that had broken away from Britain just fifty years before. Young Englishmen of the time, they were touring the strange new America across Nor did he know that he was about to inspire the novel that would make the Cave, and Glens Falls, famous - James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Last of the Mohicans.Įdward Stanley was accompanied by three other young British aristocrats,Īnd they were engaged in a relatively new activity: tourism. Three times Prime Minister of Great Britain, author of the great Reform Bill ofġ867, or that he would translate Homer's epic poem The Iliad into English. Little did he know that he would rise to become On Auga young British aristocrat named Edward Stanley
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