Oak Openings
or, The bee-hunter
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Best known for the novel “The Last of the Mohicans”, Cooper set this story in Schoolcraft, Kalamazoo county after a visit. The bee-hunter is reportedly Bazel Harrison, Schoolcraft’s first settler. A woodsman finds himself in the middle of the War of 1812 and a Potawatomi attack with a British spy and an American army messenger. Set in southwestern Michigan.*
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