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The Lake Gun
James Fenimore Cooper
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Community Reviews
Interesting but...
A good story if you take it in the form its written in. The notes about how its really a political satire were unnecessary and uninteresting. While it may have been written for that purpose, its better as a legend.
This was marvelous
The Lake Gun is Cooper's fascinating allegory that offered the reader a polemical denunciation of an 1850s New York state politician (William Henry Seward) hidden in a somewhat contrived Native American legend based in the environs of Lake Seneca. Cooper echoes Hawthorne in his denunciation of aboli
A study in metaphor, brilliant writing
I first wanted to read this short story to learn more about the lake gun effect. The effect has occurred in several lakes over hundred of years. It is manifest in loud booming sounds that gave no credible explanation. The most well-known gun in the New England r