The last of the Mohicans / Cooper, James Fenimore

A Mohican brave struggles to protect two English girls from an evil Huron during the French and Indian War in upstate New York.

A tale of adventure, treachery, and friendship in the battle-torn wilderness of eighteenth-century upstate New York.

"The second in the Leatherstocking tales "presents Chingachgook and his son Uncas as the last of the Iroquis aristocracy. Natty Bumppo, the scout Hawkeye, is in the prime of hes career in the campaign of Fort William Henry on Lake George under attack by the French and Indians. The commander's daughters, Cora and Alice Munro, with the latter's fiance Major Duncan Heyward, are captured by a traitorous Indian but rescued and conveyed to the fort by Hawkeye. Later Munro surrenders to Montcalm, and the girls are seized again by Indians. Uncas and Cora are killed, and the others return to civilization.: Haydn.

Presents Cooper's classic novel in which Hawk-eye, a white scout raised among Native Americans, and two Mohicans, Chingachgook and Uncas, attempt to save two pioneer sisters abducted by Iroquois tribesmen during the French and Indian War; and includes explanatory notes and an essay on the novel's historical contexts.