Found in Marcia Schuyler
Written by James Fenimore Cooper
This epic was first published in January 1826, and was one of the most popular novels of its time.
While guiding a small party of English settlers to the protection of a fort during the French and Indian War, Hawkeye, a frontier scout, and his two Indian friends, the remaining braves of the Mohican tribe, struggle against the evils of Uncas who desires a white maiden for his wife.