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The oak-openings or, The bee-hunter .By: James Fenimore Cooper ( include 1 and 2 volume ) NOVEL
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ISBN10: 1975735323
ISBN13: 9781975735326
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 24 2017
Pages: 262
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.55 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781975735326
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 24 2017
Pages: 262
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.55 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
The Oak Openings; or, The Bee Hunter is an 1848 novel by James Fenimore Cooper. The novel focuses on the activities of professional honey-hunter Benjamin Boden, nicknamed Ben Buzz. The novel is set in Kalamazoo, Michigan's Oak Opening, a wooded prairie that still exists in part today, during the War of 1812.After returning from his European travels in the 1830s, Cooper was persuaded by his nephew, Horace H. Comstock, to invest in Michigan real estate. The Potawatomi had ceded much of their land in central Michigan by 1833 and their former territory became known as oak-openings. By 1837, Cooper's $6,000 investment was losing value, though he watched as his fellow New Yorkers attempted to colonize the area like honeybees.The experience inspired The Oak Openings; or, The Bee Hunter, and the novel became one of the first representations of Beekeeping in American literature.[5] Though not the first author to use the term oak openings, Frederick Marryat did so, Cooper popularized the term for the type of oak clad Savannah with the publication of the novel.
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