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America in 1833 he found he as rather unpopular due to works he had written

while living in Europe, namely Notions of the Americans and Letter to

General Lafayette. He left New York City because of this unpopularity, and

went to live in Cooperstown, New York, the settlement founded by his father.

Cooper died at Cooperstown on September 14, 1851, one day before

his sixty-second birthday. Cooper has, and continues to be, an immensely

popular writer, and he is generally considered to be the first major American

novelist.

The Pioneers were successful in Cooper’s time because of its verbal

pictures “excited a sensation among the artists, altogether unprecedented in

the history of our domestic literature” and helped establish the style of the

Hudson River School, our first group of landscape painters. Translated early

into all the major languages of Europe, The Pioneers was one of the first

American novels to carry distinctive, authoritative American experience to the

world.

In the community of Templeton there were community leaders. These

leaders were, Judge Temple, Hiram Doolittle, Natty Bumpo, Billy Kirby,

Sheriff Richard Jones and Judge Marmaduke Temple.

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Natty Bumpo becomes the self-appointed conscience of the community

in general and of Judge Temple in particular, constantly criticizing the “wasty

ways” of the settlers. Natty Bumpo is the most aware and concerned

individual for the community.

The greater message of The Pioneers is Cooper stressing the constant

abuse of the environment of settlers in his time period. Settling of the land

entailed rampant destruction of nature. Natty Bumpo is appalled at how the

Cooperstown area pioneers are so wasteful of nature.

Natty Bumpo observed many abuses of the wildlife around him. He

sees tens of thousands of passenger pigeons killed, for more than can be