The Story of Cooperstown

by Ralph Birdsall

FOOTNOTES:

[120] Pages and Pictures, 301.

[121] Elihu Phinney in Shaw's History of Cooperstown.

[122] Letter to John W. Francis, 1822.

[123] Vol xxix, p. 35.

[124] U.S. National Museum, Bulletin 47, p. 465.

[125] Livermore, History of Cooperstown, p. 133.

[126] G. P. Keese, Harper's Magazine, October, 1885.

[127] For the purpose of the story, as he explains in the preface of The Deerslayer, Cooper places the "sunken island" farther south, nearly opposite to Hutter's Point, and at a greater distance from the shore than its real situation.

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