Oak Openings: James Fennimore Cooper

by James Fenimore Cooper

Overview

Oak Openings by James Fennimore Cooper. After returning from his European travels in the 1830s, Cooper was persuaded by his nephew, Horace H. Comstock, to invest in Michigan real estate. The Potawatomi had ceded much of their land in central Michigan by 1833 and their former territory became known as "oak-openings." By 1837, Cooper's $6,000 investment was losing value, though he watched as his fellow New Yorkers attempted to colonize the area like honeybees. The experience inspired The Oak Openings; or, The Bee Hunter, and the novel became one of the first representations of Beekeeping in American literature. Though not the first author to use the term "oak openings," Frederick Marryat did so, Cooper popularized the term for the type of oak clad Savannah with the publication of the novel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781981656974
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	12/13/2017
Series:	James Fennimore Cooper
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.02(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

James Fennimore Cooper

Date of Birth:

September 15, 1789

Date of Death:

September 14, 1851

Place of Birth:

Burlington, New Jersey

Place of Death:

Cooperstown, New York

Education:

Yale University (expelled in 1805)