Hawkeye, a young frontier scout, and Uncas, a Mohican Indian, form an unlikely friendship as they battle against the Iroquois Indians and try to preserve the unspoiled wilderness.
In upper New York State during the French and Indian War, a woodsman named Hawkeye and two Mohicans, Chingachgook and Uncas, get entangled in the fighting as they try to save two pioneer sisters abducted by Iroquois tribesmen.