Cornelius Littlepage, son of a Westchester family, tells of his youth in mid-eighteenth-century New York: Pinkster festivities among the Dutch and African Americans of Albany, ice breaking up on the Hudson, his courtship of Anneke Mordaunt and an expedition to survey wild lands that leads into the French and Indian War at Ticonderoga.
The first of Cooper’s Littlepage novels and one of his richest portraits of colonial manners. Download the free EPUB.