The Littlepage Manuscripts: Satanstoe, The Chainbearer & The Redskins

€ Three of American author Jamse Fenimore Cooper€s action and adventure tales set in rural America are bound together in this Kindle Trilogy, often referred to as the Littlepage Manuscripts: Satanstoe, The Chainbearer & The Redskins

Satanstoe, A Tale of the Colony (1845)
This is the first volume of the Littlepage Manuscripts trilogy, narrating the history of three generations of a Dutch-descended American family starting from the mid-eighteenth century. The pastoral picture of colonial life among the Dutch settlers at Albany is reminiscent of The Pioneers.
It is an interesting tale of nostalgic autobiographical recollections, action and adventure, and social philosophy. Ostensibly, it gives a comprehensive view of colonial life and society in New York State in the middle of the eighteenth century.
Satanstoe is perhaps Cooper's best-known novel after the Leatherstocking Tales.

The Chainbearer (1845)
The Chainbearer is the second book in a trilogy and focuses mainly on land ownership and the displacement of American Indians as the United States moves westward.

The Redskins, or Indian and Injin (1846), Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts
The landed gentry concede their once powerful role in America in what is Cooper€s condemnation of the nation's political direction and a reflection on America€s Old World civilization.

About The Author
James Fenimore Cooper (1789 €“1851) was a popular American writer of historical romances involving frontier and Indian life in the early American days. He lived most of his life in Cooperstown, New York, which was established by his father William. Cooper a lifelong member of the Episcopal Church.
He attended Yale University for three years, where he was a member of the Linonian Society, but was expelled for misbehavior. Before embarking on his career as a writer he served in the U.S. Navy as a Midshipman which greatly influenced many of his novels and other writings.
He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans, often regarded as his masterpiece.
He anonymously published Precaution and soon wrote several other novels. In 1823, he published The Pioneers, the first of the Leatherstocking series. The series features Natty Bumppo, a resourceful American woodsman at home with the Delaware Indians and their chief Chingachgook. Bumppo was also the main character of Cooper's most famous novel, The Last of the Mohicans (1826).
In 1826 Cooper moved his family to Europe, where he sought to gain more income from his books as well as provide better education for his children.
In 1832 he entered the lists as a political writer; in a series of letters to Le National, a Parisian journal, he defended the United States against a string of charges brought against them by the Revue Britannique. For the rest of his life, he continued skirmishing in print, sometimes for the national interest, sometimes for that of the individual, and not infrequently for both at once.
In 1833 Cooper returned to the United States and published A Letter to My Countrymen, in which he gave his own version of the controversy and sharply censured his compatriots for their share in it.