Lionel Lincoln
... that James Fenimore Cooper was very dissatisfied with his American Revolutionary War novel Lionel Lincoln, his only "strict attempt" at historical fiction?
... that <a href="./James_Fenimore_Cooper" id="mwCK8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="James Fenimore Cooper">James Fenimore Cooper</a> was very dissatisfied with his American Revolutionary War novel <i id="mwCLA"><b id="mwCLE"><a href="./Lionel_Lincoln" id="mwCLI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Lionel Lincoln">Lionel Lincoln</a></b></i>, his only "strict attempt" at historical fiction?