James Fenimore Cooper's Frontier: The Pioneers as History

Articles and Miscellanea 

 

Baym, Nina, 

“

The Women of Cooper's 

Leatherstocking Tales

,” 

American Quarterly

, Vol. 23, 

No. 5. (Dec., 1971), pp. 696-709. 

 

Cronon, William, “The Trouble With Wilderness, Or Getting Back to the Wrong Nature” 

Environmental History, 

Vol. 1, No. 1. (January, 1996) 7-28 

Freeman, John F., “The Indian Convert: Theme and Variation,” 

Ethnohistory

, Vol. 12, No. 2. 

(Spring, 1965) 

Greene, John C., “American Science Comes of Age, 1780-1820,” 

The Journal of American 

History

, Vol. 55, No. 1. (Jun., 1968) 

 

Kerber, Linda, “The Republican Mother: Women and the Enlightenment- An American 

Perspective,” 

American Quarterly

, Vol. 28, No. 2, Special Issue: An American Enlightenment. 

(Summer, 1976) 187-205. 

 

Richter, Daniel K., “Whose Indian History?” 

The William and Mary Quarterly

, 3rd Ser., Vol. 50, 

No. 2 (Apr., 1993) 

 

Kuritz, Hyman, “The Popularization of Science in Nineteenth Century America,”

History of 

Education Quarterly

, Vol. 21, No. 3. (Autumn, 1981) 

 

Martin, Terence, “Social Institutions in the Early American Novel,” 

American Quarterly

, 

Vol. 9, No. 1. (Spring, 1957) 

Pattison, William, Beginnings of the American Rectangular Land Survey System, 1784-1800, 

diss. University of Chicago, 1957 (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1957) 

 

Thomas, Brook, “The Pioneers, Or the Sources of American Legal History: a Critical Tale,” 

American Quarterly

, Vol. 36, No. 1. (Spring, 1984): 86-111 

“The New York Act of Attainder, or Confiscation Act” Chapter XXV of the Laws of the Third 

Session of the New York Legislature; October, 22, 1779 

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Bagby, George F., “Kindred Spirits: Cooper and Thoreau,” Originally published in James 

Fenimore Cooper Society Miscellaneous Papers No. 5, November, 1994, 

 

Bower, Anne L., “Resisting Women: ‘Feminist’ Students and Cooper's 

The Pioneers

, with a few 

Thoughts Concerning Pedagogical Approaches to 

The Prairie

” Originally published in 

James 

Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art

, Papers from the 2001 Cooper Seminar (No. 13), 

The State University of New York College at Oneonta  

 

 Buchholz, Douglas, “Landownership and Representation of Social Conflict in 

The Pioneers,”

 

Presented at the 7th Cooper Seminar, 

James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art

 at the 

State University of New York College at Oneonta, July, 1989 

 

 

Johnston, Paul K,. “Puritan in the Wilderness: Natty Bumppo's Language & America's Nature 

Today,” Presented at the 11th Cooper Seminar, 

James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His 

Art

 at the State University of New York College at Oneonta, July, 

1997http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/articles/suny/1997suny-johnston.html 

 

Kandl, John, “Natty and the Judge: The Pictorial Development of an Ambivalent Theme in 

The 

Pioneers,”

 Originally published in 

James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art

, Papers 

from the Bicentennial Conference, July 1989 

 

 

MacDougall, Hugh; “James Fenimore Cooper: Pioneer of the Environmental Movement,” 1990;  

 

 

------------ “Reading 

The Pioneers

 as History,” 1994, online reference document 

 

 

Marshall, Ian, “Cooper's ‘Course of Empire’: Mountains and the Rise and Fall of American 

Civilization in 

The Last of the Mohicans

, 

The Spy

, and 

The Pioneers” 

1989 

 

 

Van Valen, Nelson, “James Fenimore Cooper and the Conservation Schism,” 

New York History

, 

Vol. LXII, No. 3 (July 1981), pp. 289-306. 

 

 

Beecher, Catherine and Stowe, Harriet Beecher, The American Woman's Home, c. 1841, Project 

Gutenberg Ebook, December, 2002  

 

Anon., Excerpt from a review of The Pioneers, in 

The Port Folio

, Vol. 15, No. 251, March, 

1823, pp. 230-48. Reprinted in 

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism

, Vol. 27, Gale Group. 

 

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