Set near and on Lake Ontario in the 1750s The Pathfinder is chronologically the third installation of James Fenimore Coopers gripping Leatherstocking Tales While the French Indian War rages on Mabel a nineteenyearold young woman is travelling to see her father Sergeant Thomas Dunham Accompanied by her uncle and two Native Americans Smashing Arrows and June Dew Mabel treks through the dense forests of upstate New York towards her fathers home on Lake Ontario While the group approaches a river they meet up with Natty Bumppo a middleaged hero who has earned the nickname quotPathfinderquot and his friends Chingachgook and Jasper The two parties agree to combine because the forest has become a perilous place amid the French Indian War As they continue their journey to Thomas Dunhams house an English castle on the shore of Lake Ontario the group faces narrow escapes dangerous terrain and the consequences of the French Indian War Though even when they arrive at the home of Sergeant Thomas Dunham their journey has barely begun While he was glad to reunite with his daughter Dunhams true motivation for her arrival was his hopes to marry her to Pathfinder However Mabel has already...
