James Fenimore Cooper

The Oak Openings James Fenimore Cooper

The Oak Opening; or, The Bee Hunter is an 1848 novel by James Fenimore Cooper. The novel focuses on the activities of a professional honey-hunter Benjamin Boden, nicknamed "Ben Buzz". The novel is the last of Cooper's novels to explore the relationships between Europeans and Native Americans in the early American expansion. The novel is set in Michigan's Oak Opening - a wooded prairie. The novel has a significant religious thematic focus.