What to see in America . oners. One of the most picturesque of colonial characters was SirWilliam Johnson. At Johnstown, about 50 miles northwest of Albany, hebuilt JohnsonsHall, as hecalled it, andthere lived in ba-ronial style, ex-ercising greathospitality. Hewas intimatewith the Indians,spoke their lan-guage, and at times put on their dress and their paint, andwhooped, yelped, and stamped like one of them. The Mo-hawks adopted him into their tribe and made him a chief,and he married a squaw. His mansion still stands. At the southern end of Otsego Lake is Cooperstown,founded in 1786 by the f
What to see in America . oners. One of the most picturesque of colonial characters was SirWilliam Johnson. At Johnstown, about 50 miles northwest of Albany, hebuilt JohnsonsHall, as hecalled it, andthere lived in ba-ronial style, ex-ercising greathospitality. Hewas intimatewith the Indians,spoke their lan-guage, and at times put on their dress and their paint, andwhooped, yelped, and stamped like one of them. The Mo-hawks adopted him into their tribe and made him a chief,and he married a squaw. His mansion still stands. At the southern end of Otsego Lake is Cooperstown,founded in 1786 by the father of J. Fenimore Cooper, thenovelist. The latter was brought there when an infant,and it continued to be his home until he died in 1851. Hisfathers log house was soon replaced by Otsego Hall, whichfor many years was the most spacious and stately residencein central New York. A statue of an Indian hunter marksits site. Coopers Indians have been defined by Mark Twainas an extinct tribe that never existed, but his books. A Stage between North Creek and Indian Lake New York State 97
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