Time of the Red-Man
Mark Ford: James Fenimore Cooper, 25 September 2008
James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years
by Wayne Franklin.
Yale, 708 pp., £25, July 2008,978 0 300 10805 7 Show More
by Wayne Franklin.
Yale, 708 pp., £25, July 2008,
“... the more Cooper earned the more rapaciously he was hounded by such associates as the lawyer Robert Sedgwick, a one-time friend who extracted exorbitant amounts of interest on his loans, and the unsavoury duo of Thomas Bridgen and William Holt Averell, who ended up acquiring, by various devious stratagems, much of the land and property that had made up ... ”