In the summer of 1812, Benjamin Boden, a skilled bee-hunter known as Le Bourdon or Ben Buzz, meets Gershom Waring, the Potawatomi Elksfoot, and the Ojibwe runner Pigeonswing in Mic...
With Pigeonswing’s assistance, Ben, Margery, and the Waring family travel through forests and waterways in search of safety, but their journey becomes more difficult when the miss...
Ben and Margery are married by Parson Amen, but their companions are again placed in mortal danger when Peter and warriors from several tribes prepare a plan to destroy the white s...
Deerslayer and Hurry Harry travel through a forest threatened by war and arrive at Glimmerglass, where they meet Tom Hutter and his daughters, Judith and Hetty, aboard the ark. Dri...
Hetty appeals to the Hurons for the release of her father and Hurry, while Deerslayer and Chingachgook enter the enemy camp to rescue Chingachgook’s betrothed, Hist. Hist and Chin...
After his companions reject the Huron demand that Hist be surrendered, Deerslayer leaves the lake and voluntarily returns to captivity because he has promised to do so, even though...
In 1757, during the French and Indian War, Colonel Munro’s daughters, Cora and Alice, travel toward Fort William Henry with Duncan Heyward and the singing master David Gamut, but ...
Hawkeye and the Mohicans follow Magua’s trail and rescue Cora, Alice, Heyward, and Gamut after a fierce struggle before guiding them safely to the besieged Fort William Henry. Alt...
Hawkeye, Heyward, Chingachgook, and Uncas enter the Huron villages using daring disguises and deceptions, while David Gamut assists their efforts to rescue the captive sisters. Ali...
Mabel Dunham travels through the dangerous wilderness near Lake Ontario with her sailor uncle Cap and the Tuscarora couple Arrowhead and June to reach her father’s British garriso...
At the garrison, shooting contests and sailing races reveal the remarkable abilities of Pathfinder and Jasper, while their shared affection for Mabel creates an unspoken rivalry. S...
Despite Mabel’s warnings, Arrowhead’s betrayal enables the enemy to attack the island, causing heavy losses among Sergeant Dunham and his soldiers while Mabel struggles to surviv...
On Christmas Eve in 1793, Judge Marmaduke Temple and his daughter Elizabeth encounter Natty Bumppo, John Mohegan, and the mysterious young hunter Oliver Edwards during a disputed d...
With the arrival of spring, the settlers gather maple sap, fish the lake, and hunt the immense flocks of migrating pigeons, but their enjoyment of nature repeatedly turns into reck...
Natty is tried and imprisoned for violating the game laws and resisting a search of his cabin, discovering that the new legal order has turned the ancient customs of his forest lif...
Shortly after the Louisiana Purchase, squatter Ishmael Bush leads his large family across the open prairie and encounters an aged trapper who has withdrawn westward to escape advan...
While the Bush family mourns Asa and searches for his killer, the trapper, Paul, and Middleton discover Inez hidden among the wagons and escape with her and Ellen. Pursued by Ishma...
While traveling with Hard-Heart toward the Pawnee village, the group is captured again by the Tetons, and Mahtoree attempts to take Inez and Ellen as wives while forcing the young ...
During the American Revolution, the story begins in New York’s Neutral Ground when the mysterious Mr. Harper takes shelter with the Wharton family at their estate, the Locusts. Br...
While the wounded are treated at the Locusts, love, jealousy, and political loyalty become increasingly entangled within the Wharton household. Colonel Wellmere, whom Sarah hopes t...
