Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 / 2008-06-05 00:00:00

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The Pathfinder
or
The Inland Sea
By James Fenimore Cooper

PREFACE.
The plan of this tale suggested itself to the writer many years
since, though the details are altogether of recent invention. The
idea of associating seamen and savages in incidents that might be
supposed characteristic of the Great Lakes having been mentioned
to a Publisher, the latter obtained something like a pledge from
the Author to carry out the design at some future day, which pledge
is now tardily and imperfectly redeemed.
The reader may recognize an old friend under new circumstances in
the principal character of this legend.
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