As the French and Indian War tears through the American frontier, two English sisters are led through hostile territory by a small band of guides — among them Hawkeye, a white scout raised among the Mohicans, and Uncas, the last son of a dying people.

James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans is the definitive American frontier epic: a story of massacre and rescue, of loyalty that crosses every line colonial society draws, and of a way of life vanishing beneath the weight of empire. Its battles are ferocious, its landscapes vast, and its central friendship — between Hawkeye and Uncas — remains one of the most quietly devastating in American fiction.

The novel that defined the American frontier adventure for two centuries of readers.

The most famous of Cooper's Leatherstocking TalesA gripping captivity-and-rescue story set against real frontier warA friendship across cultures that carries the novel's emotional core

Empires rise and fall. Some loyalties outlast them all.