After the Revolution, Mordaunt Littlepage goes north to survey and settle his family’s wilderness lands in upstate New York, helped by the old chainbearer Andries Coejemans, an honest soldier who measures boundaries by hand. In the forest they run into Thousandacres, a patriarch of squatters who believes land belongs to whoever cuts the trees.
The second Littlepage novel, readable alone, in which Cooper argues hotly for property rights during New York’s Anti-Rent agitation. Download the free EPUB.