Talk:Lionel Lincoln

A fact from Lionel Lincoln appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 January 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that James Fenimore Cooper was very dissatisfied with his American Revolutionary War novel Lionel Lincoln, his only "strict attempt" at historical fiction?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/January.

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Cooper's historical novels

Too bad that the odd assertion that this is in some special sense James Fenimore Cooper's "only" historical novel made it to Wikipedia's main page, in spite of my having drawn attention to the solecism at DYK. The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 was published in January 1826. The Pathfinder (1840) is its sequel. --Wetman (talk) 20:07, 21 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I know it has been many years since this comment but I had to take a moment to chime in. Yes, this is an odd thing to suggest, as most of Cooper's novels were historical fiction, including several that came before Lionel Lincoln. --Midnightdreary (talk) 17:18, 6 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]