![]() ![]() Stanley noted in his journal, "Cooper… was much struck with the scenery he had not before seen" as they crossed the Hudson River at Glens Falls on the return trip to Saratoga. The latter would later become the 14th Earl of Derby and Great Britain's Prime Minister during the reign of Queen Victoria. Yet, after hearing tales of the French and Indian Wars and gaining a better understanding of the territory, James Fenimore Cooper (JCF) led a party of Englishmen into the Southern Adirondacks in 1825, including Lord Edward Stanley. According to one account, Native Americans referred to the place as "the Dismal Wilderness, or the Habitation of Winter." A 1771 map of the area shows the region as a blank space in the northeastern corner of New York. In the early 19th century, Europeans considered the Adirondacks a vast, inhospitable wilderness. Did you know that right in downtown Glens Falls, New York is the real-life inspiration for one of the great American novels, James Fenimore Cooper's "Last of the Mohicans"? ![]()
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