Wyandotté (novel)

Wyandotté is a historical novel published by James Fenimore Cooper in 1843.^[1] The novel is set in New York state during the American Revolution.^[1] The main character of the novel is an Indian, "Saucy Nick", also called Wyandotté ("Great Chief"), whose depictions violate stereotypes of Native Americans.^[2]

Critic James H. Pickering described the novel as rejecting the more established histories of the New York/Canada border war during the Revolution.^[1] In part the novel represents Cooper's own knowledge of the regional oral history and affiliation with soldiers who had experienced the war.^[1]

In his 1968 review of the novel, critic James H. Pickering called the novel one of "Cooper's more successful efforts".^[1]

• Ringe, Donald A. (1962). James Fenimore Cooper. New Haven. pp. 101–105. ISBN 9780805701562.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• House, Kay Seymour (1965). Cooper's Americans. Ohio State University Press. pp. 49–56.
• Walker, Jeffrey (July 1986). George A. Test (ed.). "Fenimore Cooper's Wyandotté and the Cyclic Course of Empire". State University of New York College at Oneonta: 94–104 – via James Fenimore Cooper Society. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• Williams, Jr., Kennedy (1978). George A. Test (ed.). "Cooper's Use of American History". State University of New York College at Oneonta and Cooperstown, New York: 15–25 – via James Fenimore Cooper Society. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• Schramer, James J. (August 1995). ""A Bold Stroke against the Wilderness": Wyandotté and Cooper's Critique of the Jeffersonian Ideology of Domestic Production". James Fenimore Cooper Society Miscellaneous Papers (6). Baltimore – via James Fenimore Cooper Society.

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