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...Leatherstocking as well as an impressive research feat-is the work of Clark University's James Franklin Beard, whose 15-year trail took him from the archives of Warsaw to New England bookstores (in one of which he found a Cooper fragment addressed to an Ojibway Indian). The nonscholar is advised to read by the strip-mining method of ignoring the gritty substratum of footnotes, which run as high as 28 for one letter, and following two thin but constant veins of comic paydirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Patent Leatherstocking | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

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