James Fenimore Cooper's Frontier: The Pioneers as History



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Scientific Curiosity 

 

Consider Richard, who is usually depicted showing only his boastful and foolish side. 

However, even he is a son of the Age of Reason, tracking weather patterns and other 

developments. Cooper makes a point of showing us Richard’s scientific accoutrements: “A 

Fahrenheit's thermometer in a mahogany case, and with a barometer annexed, was hung against 

the wall, at some little distance from the stove, which Benjamin consulted, every half hour, with 

prodigious exactitude.”

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 These are fine instruments, no doubt expensive, and both of which had 

been invented in the past century and a half.  

Also, Cooper wrote, “among the other pursuits of Richard, he had a passion to keep a 

register of all passing events; and his diary, which was written in the manner of a journal, or log 

book, embraced not only such circumstances as affected himself, but observations on the 

                                                 

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weather, and all the occurrences of the family, and frequently of the village.” To this end, 

“Richard invented a kind of hieroglyphical character, which was intended to note all the ordinary 

occurrences of a day, such as how the wind blew, whether the sun shone, or whether it rained, 

the hours, etc.”

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 Interestingly, for all his folly, it is Richard who several times prevails upon 



Temple with an appeal to reason – and to science. 

 


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