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Encyclopedia entry: Cooperstown
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- The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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Copyright© The Oxford Companion to American Literature 1995, originally published by Oxford University Press 1995. (Hide copyright information)
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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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