Note 19 — THE EARLY NOVELS OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1821–1831)

Portifolio 15 (1823) 230: “Natty Bumppo, ... we think, has been modelled from the effigies of old Daniel Boone, who abandoned the society of his kindred and built a hut among the Indians; and persisted in moving further into the interior as civilization invaded his wild domains.... It might indeed be called historical; for the historian can scarcely find a more just and vivid delineation of the first settlements of our wilderness.”