The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America were both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent on them. The novel is set in the upper New York wilderness, describing the transport in a caravan of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry.