This final installation in the Leatherstocking Tales follows the trapper during his final year of life as he assists others in distress on the American frontier.

The Pioneers is perhaps the most realistic and beautiful of the Leatherstocking series. Drawing on his own experiences, Cooper brilliantly describes frontier life, providing a fascinating backdrop to the real heart of the novel, the competing claims to land ownership of Native Americans and settlers.

Natty Bumppo, a young white hunter brought up in the Delaware Indian tribe, has to defend settlers before returning to the Iroquois who have allowed him parole.

"The Last of the Mohicans is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War (the Seven Years' War), when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists. The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing...