Talk:The Pioneers (novel)

What is wrong with the material put in?
Please stop reverting without explanation.--Drboisclair 19:37, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

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Original research
This article appears to be based on one or more editors' interpretation of Cooper's text and intentions. The interpretation needs to be supported by Reliable Sources (RS), preferably secondary academic sources that have discussed the book. The article is striking for lack of citations to such sources.Parkwells (talk) 16:33, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Not a Puritan society
Cooper's father was a Quaker entrepreneur and erstwhile real estate developer from Burlington, New Jersey. Central New York had been settled by English, German and Scots-Irish pioneers; the Germans were Lutheran and Reformed Church. While migrants from New England also settled western New York, by that time they were not considered Puritan but were Congregationalist and Unitarian. There were also Methodists and Baptists.Parkwells (talk) 16:33, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Hannah Cooper
The author himself, in the preface to a later edition, denies this connection. Is there secondary literature that plausibly asserts it nontheless? Otherwise we should delete it.--Oudeís talk 15:21, 25 August 2023 (UTC)