Complete and unabridged, with 93 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, Martin Johnson Heade and John Frederick Kensett. Two sisters are escorted through the woods between two armies in the war of 1757, and the scout who guides them keeps company with the last two Mohicans. Cooper wrote it in 1826 from the massacre at Fort William Henry, which he had read about in the records and improved for the page. The forest craft — a broken twig, the sound a canoe makes on gravel — is the reason the book has never gone out of print. Ninety-three plates by painters including George Catlin and Winslow Homer carry the forest, the lake and the tracked man through the story, from 1806 to 1912.