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James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper, painting by John Wesley Jarvis, 1822; in the Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York.
The Pathfinder, a novel by James Fenimore Cooper, is set in the wilderness near Lake Ontario during the French and Indian War.1