The Last of the Mohicans

Set in 1757, at the time of the French and Indian War on the wilderness frontier between the English and French colonies, "The Last of the Mohicans", the second and most famous of the "Leatherstocking Tales", revolves around the efforts of Alice and Cora Munro to join their father at Fort William Henry, where he commands a wilderness outpost on Lake George in northern New York. Their guide in the wilderness, Magua, leader of a group of Hurons allied with the French, has other plans, but when Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo), Chingachgook, and his son Uncas come on the scene, Magua's schemes are laid bare, and a thrilling series of escapes, attacks, captures, and rescues ensues. "... in his immortal friendship of Chingachgook and Natty Bumppo (Cooper)dreamed the nucleus of a new society... A stark stripped human relationship of two men, deeper than the deeps of sex. Deeper than property, deeper than fatherhood, deeper than marriage, deeper than Love." - D.H. Lawrence