01954cam a22003613u 4500 34916 UtSlPG 20260610133810.0 m cr n 260607r2011||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PS Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2011 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chainbearer Release date is 2011-01-11 Produced by David Edwards, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "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.) Original publication data not identified Historical fiction War stories Domestic fiction New York (State) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Fiction https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34916 75762 75762