Encyclopedia entry: Cooperstown

Cooperstown, New York state settlement 59 miles west of Albany, founded by William Cooper and described by him in A Guide in the Wilderness (1810) and by his son James Fenimore Cooper in Chronicles of Cooperstown (1838). The younger Cooper used the environs of the town on Otsego Lake as prototype for the setting of some of his fiction, notably The Deerslayer and The Pioneers. ...

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