Tuesday 21 June 2022 09:07 PM Boy, 14, who drowned while kayaking in Utah was 'American pioneer' trends now
A fourteen-year-old boy who drowned kayaking in a Utah river last week was an outdoor enthusiast who had written a book about his unorthodox homeschooling and how he had become a child entrepreneur.
Kevin Cooper, 14, died after falling out of a kayak in the Newcastle Reservoir near Beryl, Utah, last Saturday.
He was on the water with his autistic older brother. It's unclear exactly how he fell out of the kayak. Kevin's family told local media that he couldn't swim.
In his 14 short years, he wrote a book under the pseudonym Cole Summers, and amassed thousands of fans on social media with his love of the outdoors and extraordinarily enterprising young mind.
According to his family, Kevin had somehow managed to buy property by the time he was eight, and he was the sole keeper of the land where he lived with his disabled parents and brother.
Kevin Cooper, 14, died after falling out of a kayak in the Newcastle Reservoir near Beryl, Utah, last Saturday. For the last 12 years, he had been working on his family's farm
Kevin also went by the name of Cole Summers, a name he used to write under. He wrote about 'unschooling' - choosing what he learned and spending most of his time outside rather than studying a traditional curriculum
Cole at the age of eight. His family say he owned property by then and was running their family business
His father is wheelchair bound after suffering an injury while serving in the armed forces, according to a neighbor, and his mother is blind.
