Note 1 — THE EARLY NOVELS OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1821–1831)
Reading edition
Any discussion of Cooper must go back to Lounsbury, T. R. James Fenimore Cooper, American Men of Letters series, Boston, 1883. W. B. Clymer’s Cooper is mainly an abridgment of Lounsbury. James Fenimore Cooper (1913) by Mary E. Philips supplies anecdotal information and pictures.