James Fenimore Cooper, the first American writer to set imaginative literature on the American frontier, was born on Septemper 14, 1851. Moving to upstate New York as an infant where his father owed a large track of land that became known as Cooperstown. The rest of his childhood could be written in two ways. The first would go something like this, “James Fenimore Cooper was born into a wealthy family. He entered Yale at the age of 13 and later at the age of 16 he went to sea.” The second and far more interesting introduction would start, “James Fenimore Cooper entered Yale at the age of 13 and was later expelled for blowing up a door of one of his classmates who he referred to as a nerd and other pranks such as training a donkey to sit in