Complete and unabridged, with 33 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Thomas Cole and George Catlin. 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. Thirty-three plates of forest and lake by painters including Thomas Cole and John Frederick Kensett carry the wilderness of 1757 across a century and a half of American landscape art.