Set in the 1740's, early in the French and Indian wars, this book follows the adventures of Natty Bumppo, or Leatherstocking, as a young hunter of 20, of his friendship with the mohican Chingachook, and his blighted love affair with Judith Hutter. Deerslayer, or frontiersman Natty Bumppo, and his Mohican friend, Chingachgook, attempt to rescue a Native American maiden and avoid two white bounty hunters in upper state New York during the French and...