For this the country papers assailed him. Combative by nature, Cooper brought suits for libel and recovered damages. The novel spectacle of an author baiting the newspapers ‘caused remark.’ The city press joined in the attack, the ‘Courier and Enquirer,’ the ‘New York Tribune,’ the ‘Albany Evening Journal,’ edited by Thurlow Weed, who once said apropos of his skill in stirring up litigation: ‘There is something in my manner of writing that makes the galled jades wince.’ Verdicts were given in Cooper’s favor. More libels followed, more suits were brought, more damages recovered. A cry arose that the liberty of the press was endangered. Cooper did not think so. He was a bulldog; when he had once fastened his teeth in a Whig editor, nothing could make him let go. He continued his prosecutions until he made his detractors respect him. It took about six years to do it. Bryant has described with grim humor the novelist’s warfare with that leviathan the Press: ‘He put a hook into the nose of this huge monster,’ said Bryant admiringly.[8] This warfare disturbed Cooper’s peace of mind, but in no wise interrupted his literary activity. The following list records by no means all that he wrote after 1834, but will suffice to show his right copious and often happy industry. Besides ten volumes of travels, Cooper published: _A Letter to his Countrymen_, 1834; _The Monikins_, 1835; _The American Democrat_, 1838; _Homeward Bound, or the Chase_, 1838; _Home as Found_, 1838; _The History of the Navy of the United States of America_, 1839; _The Pathfinder, or the Inland Sea_, 1840; _Mercedes of Castile, or the Voyage to Cathay_, 1840; _The Deerslayer, or the First War Path_, 1841; The _Two Admirals_, 1842; _The Wing-and-Wing, or Le Feu-Follet_, 1842; _Wyandotté, or the Hutted Knoll_, 1843; _Ned Meyers, or a Life before the Mast_, 1843; _Afloat and Ashore, or the Adventures of Miles Wallingford_, 1844; _Miles Wallingford_ (the second part of _Afloat and Ashore_), 1844; _Satanstoe, or the Littlepage Manuscripts_, 1845; _The Chainbearer, or the Littlepage Manuscripts_, 1846; _Lives of Distinguished American Naval Officers_, 1846; _The Redskins, or Indian and Injin_, 1846; _The Crater, or Vulcan’s Peak_, 1847; _Jack Tier, or the Florida Reefs_, 1848; _The Oak Openings, or the Bee Hunter_, 1848; _The Sea Lions, or the Lost Sealers_, 1849; _The Ways of the Hour_, 1850. _The Spy_ was dramatized and played successfully.[9] Dramatizations were also made of _The Pilot_, _The Red Rover_, _The Water-Witch_, _The Pioneers_ (‘The Wigwam, or Templeton Manor’), and _The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish_ (‘Miantonomah and Narrahmattah’). An original comedy, ‘Upside Down, or Philosophy in Petticoats,’[10] was withdrawn after four performances. No satisfactory account exists of Cooper’s earnings by literature. It is believed that in the later years he was obliged to write, if not for the necessities of life, at least for the comforts and luxuries.