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When Cooper declared that he could write a better book than the British one that he was reading, his wife dared him to do so. Thus, at his own expense Cooper wrote a really bad novel called Precaution anonymously. Fortunately, he got hooked on writing and soon wrote a better novel, The Spy.
In all, Cooper wrote 52 books, including the first history of the U.S. Navy, numerous travelogues, short stories, essays, and The Chronicles of Cooperstown. Cooper is considered the first true American novelist, but his works are often looked today as being over romanticized. Of course the most famous criticism comes from Mark Twain.
By far the most famous of Cooper's works are the five Leatherstocking Tales that have imortalized the romantic frontiersman, Natty Bumppo, also known as: Deerslayer, Hawkeye, Leatherstocking, Old Man, and Nathaniel in the Michael Mann film adaptation of The Last of the Mohicans.
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