The Last of the Mohicans, THE PATHFINDER, James Fenimore Cooper, LEATHERSTOCKING TALES, An American Saga comparable to Louis L'amour's Sackett Series

Natty Bumppo is “The Pathfinder” in this; the third (chronologically) book in the Leatherstocking Tales. The Pathfinder is now a scout for British/Colonial forces in the forests and islands around the Great Lakes. The story is a classic historical/adventure/romance. Bumppo falls in love, for the first and only time in the five novels, but the frontier was a hash place.