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Electronic
Archive at the University of Virginia
The University of Virginia has created an "Electronic Archive of Early
American Fiction" that includes many titles by Cooper. This link is to
a list of those texts. Very few are publicly available over the Internet,
however, and links to those are included below.
The
Last of the Mohicans
The text of the novel, prepared by Joanne Hindman, OED North American
Reading Program, and maintained at the University of Virginia.
The
Last of the Mochicans
The text of the novel, posted by "Bibliomania: The Network Library"
The
Last of the Mochicans
Formatted in SGML and maintained by the Oxford Text Archive project.
"The
Eclipse"
The text of an essay by Cooper, thought to have been written in 1831
but not published until 1869 in Putnam's Magazine. Machine-readable version
created by Judy Boss at the University of Virginia.
Preface
to The Water Witch
Digital images of the manuscript and a transcribed text of Cooper's
preface to The Water Witch (1830), prepared by Abigail Leab of the University
of British Columbia and maintained at the University of Virginia.
Preface
and Initial Pages of The Pathfinder
From the manuscript collection at the University of Virginia; digitized
images and transcript--six sheets in all. Prepared by Michael Winship and
Paula Di Stefano.
Mark Twain's
"Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses"
The text of Twain's famous and hilarious--and unfair, of course--essay,
in a text typed by Barbara E. Walton and maintained at a Mark Twain site
created by "joseph@telerama.lm.com".
Mark
Twain on Cooper
More comments from other sources than the "Literary Offenses" essay.
Mel ville on Cooper
This link is to a page at the Herman Melville Web site. The title of
the page is "Melville's Reflections" and includes musings on a wide variety
of topics, including Cooper.
Ken Marsh
Purely gratuitous--and therefore very interesting--comment by a computer
scientist on his Home Page.
HISTORY &
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS ... Seeing Through the Distant Haze
"This page will be featuring recent photos of many of the real-life
sites featured in The Last of the Mohicans. In addition, there will be
biographies of the true life characters, historical tellings of some of
the events in the book/film, information on James Fenimore Cooper, and
more."
The American Antiquarian Society
The AAS is now the main repository of Cooper manuscripts as well as
one of the best research libraries in the country for early American literature.
The Gopher server has a number of descriptive materials and a Telnet link
to the AAS on-line catalogue.
New York State
Historical Museum
A site featuring art samples from the Fenimore House Museum and Farmer's
Museum collections, including a portrait of Cooper and illustrations from
The Pioneers and The Prairie.
Romancing
the Indian
Created by Adriana Rissetto, University of Virginia
A very interesting use of Web technology, this site consists of a four
"chapters": an introduction, a section on Cooper's Indians, a section on
Mark Twain's Indians, and a section on other popular representations of
Indians in 19th-century culture, including those of Washington Irving,
Lydia Maria Child, and Currier and Ives. Well designed and well illustrated,
the site also contains links to a "synoptic" version of Henry Nash Smith's
Virgin Land, the full text of Frederick Jackson Turner's 1893 essay, "The
Significance of the Frontier in American History," and more.
1755--The French
and Indian War
A historical Web site created by Larry Roux in Syracuse, New York.
U.S. History--Revolutionary
Cycle
A densely-packed site of historical information and links created by
William Murray of Seattle, Washington.
Native
American Electronic Text Resources on the Internet
Links to a large number of texts posted on the Web, including the Iroquois
Constitution, many autobiographical articles and transcriptions, selected
magazine articles from the period 1880 to 1905, contemporary pieces by
writers like Russel Banks, Alexie Sherman, and Leslie Marmon Silko, scholarly
articles, newspaper reports, and more.
Mahican History
"When James Fenimore Cooper wrote "Last of the Mohicans" in 1826, he
made the Mahican famous. Unfortunately, he also made them extinct in the
minds of many people and confused their name and history with the Mohegan
from eastern Connecticut. This error has persisted, and most Americans
today would be surprised to learn that the Mahican are very much alive
and living in Wisconsin under an assumed name ...Stockbridge Indians."
If you doubt the liveliness of the Mahican people, try this engaging history.
Links to other "First Nations'" histories makes this a very useful site
for readers of Cooper's novels.
Native Circle
Debra Wichell hosts a Native-American oriented radio program in the
Albany, New York area, and this is the Home Page for that program. Much
information about Native American music, performers, etc.
The Mohicans
Debra Winchell's page about Mohicans: history, culture, archaeology,
current events, and more.
The Stockbridge
Munsee Tribe of Mohican Indians
Another page, focused on the Stockbridge people, maintained by Bravearrow
(Robert Shubinski, MD).
MOHICAN MUSINGS
... Photos & a Collage of Good Stuff
This is primarily a publicity-page connected to Michael Mann's movie
version of The Last of the Mohicans.
William
Monie, Books
Web site for a used-book store at 139 Main St. Cooperstown, New York,
specializing in "Americana, Literature, Religion & Theology, Ephemera,
Baseball, New York State, General ." Not a bad place to look for Cooperiana,
either.
Nautical
Literature Page
A page maintained by a nautical-literature enthusiast--John Kohnen--for
others of the same persuasion. Not specifically about Cooper's sea tales,
but contains links to many related texts, e.g. Dana's Two Years Before
the Mast.
Mystic Seaport
Web site for "the museum of America and the sea" in Mystic, Connecticut.
Fort William Henry
The Fort William Henry Resort and Hotel Web page! A good place to reflect
on how much the American scene has changed. A few nice pictures of the
area. Critical Assessments and Comments