Bent Northrop Memorial Library

An American historical drama about a group of settlers known as Rogers' Rangers--led by Major Rogers (Spencer Tracy)--and the hardships of survival and battles with hostile Indians, they encounter in trying to settle the upper New York state area for their families in the late 1750s and early 1760s.

'The last of the Mohicans', one of the world's great adventure stories, dramatizes how the birth of American culture was intertwined with that of Native Americans. In 1757, as the English and the French war over American territory, the frontier scout Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) risks his life to escort two sisters through hostile Huron country. Hawkeye enlists the aid of his Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas, and together they battle deception, brutality,...

While searching for his missing relatives during the French and Indian War, a young boy is captured by the Indians, but plans an escape which leads him to his father.

The Deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: • New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars • Biographies of the authors • Chronologies...

In 1754, Quentin Hale, a gentleman-turned-scout, Cormac Shea, a part-Irish, part-Indian woodsman, and the beautiful Nicole Crane become pawns in the British quest for territory at the dawn of the American Revolution.

The story of Major Robert Rogers' 1759 expedition to wipe out the Indian town of St. Francis, and his search for the water route to the Northwest--based on Rogers' own accounts.