father, citing The Last of the Mohicans as "the only book my father ever read". References Works cited Original works Further reading Franklin, Wayne, James Fenimore Cooper: the Early Years; Yale University Press; New Haven, Connecticut: 2007. 752 p. 0300108052 Franklin, Wayne, James Fenimore Cooper: the Later Years; Yale University Press; New Haven, Connecticut: 2017. 840 p. 0300135718 Daniel Davis Wood: Frontier Justice in the Novels of James Fenimore Cooper and Cormac McCarthy. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016, ISBN 9781443896542 Anna Krauthammer: The Representation of the Savage in James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville. Peter Lang, 2008, ISBN 9780820468105 External links Mark Twain, "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences"; a satiric essay about Cooper's prose and Natty Bumppo Novel series Novels by James Fenimore Cooper American historical novels