Mabel Dunham travels through the wilderness to join her father, a sergeant at Fort Oswego, guided by the scout Pathfinder, the young freshwater sailor Jasper Western and her blustering salt-water uncle Cap. On the lake and its islands they face French and Iroquois enemies, and the scout falls in love. Cooper’s views of Native peoples are those of 1840.
The fourth of the Leatherstocking Tales, and the one where the great frontiersman falls in love. Download the free EPUB.