The story has plenty of action, in the James Fenimore Cooper manner ambushes, escapes, tense confrontations.

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There's even a rock in the garden Fenimore Cooper is supposed to have stubbed his toe on during a garden party in 1842.

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This discordant medley of enthusiasm and regret would subsequently be echoed in the frontier novels of James Fenimore Cooper and the Westerns of John Ford.

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The American Bible Society was founded in 1816 at City Hall, in New York City, by such luminaries as New York Governor DeWitt Clinton and writer James Fenimore Cooper.

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