Growing Up in Cooper Country: Boyhood Recollections of the New York Frontier

by Louis Jones

Book Overview

Shortly after the Revolution, new waves of settlers came from the Hudson Valley and New England to the hills
and woodlands of Central New York. While the adults wiled to tame the wilderness later made famous by
Cooper's Leatherstocking, Tales, the children led busy, wonderful lives of their own.

This charming book contains extensive boyhood reminiscences from the autobiographies of two men who grew up in the Cooper Country during the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815600402
• ISBN13: 9780815600404
• Release Date: January 1965
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.6"