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The Chainbearer; or The Littlepage Manuscripts is a novel by the American novelist James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1845. The Chainbearer is the second book in a trilogy starting with Satanstoe and ending with The Redskins.
- James Fenimore Cooper
- 1845
Jan 11, 2011 · The Chainbearer is a historical fiction set in New York in the early 19th century, depicting the conflicts between landowners and squatters. It is part of the Littlepage Manuscripts, a series of stories written by different authors in the same family.
The Chainbearer has many of the same strengths of his best novels. As the reader of Cooper would expect, there are fascinating "slice-of-life" illustrations of the manners of the civilization of the Early American Republic. There is the tension between various ideals of freedom.
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Cooper’s The Chainbearer presents an exciting narrative that interrogates issues of what it means to own land. The novel examines the claims of ownership of wilderness land among Native Americans, New England squatters, and the old New York families with legal deeds.
The Chainbearer was of a respectable Dutch family, one that has even given its queer-looking name to a place of some little note on the Hudson; but, as was very apt to be the case with the cadets of such houses, in the good old time of the colony, his education was no great matter.
May 15, 2006 · The chainbearer : or, The Littlepage manuscripts. by. Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Publication date. 1856. Publisher. New York : Stringer and Townsend. Collection. cdl; americana.
May 11, 2011 · The chainbearer; or, The littlepage manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Publication date 1899 Topics Antirent War, N.Y., 1839-1846 Publisher
