Cooper, James Fenimore,  1789-1851 <br/><br/>
The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chainbearer  Release date is 2011-01-11 
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<br/><br/> "The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts" by James Fenimore Cooper is a novel published in 1845. The second book in the Littlepage trilogy, it explores land ownership and the displacement of American Indians during westward expansion. Through the figure of the chainbearer—a surveyor who measures land—Cooper examines the cultural divide between European and Native American concepts of property. The novel critiques the growing corruption of civilization and America's treatment of indigenous peoples as the nation expands. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Historical fiction War stories Domestic fiction New York (State) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Fiction 
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