In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.

Carl Clinton Van Doren (September 10 1885 – July 18 1950) was a U. He earned a bachelor of arts from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1907 and a doctorate from Columbia University in 1911 and continued to teach there until 1930.

S. critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. Carl Clinton Van Doren (September 10 1885 – July 18 1950) was a U.