The Pioneers

Judge Temple and his daughter, Elizabeth, are making their way home when a deer crosses their path and the Judge decides to take a few blind shots at it. He fails to kill the deer, but a young hunter, Oliver, new in town, shoots it dead on the spot – and he seems much more concerned about claiming the animal than with the fact that he has just been shot himself.

Natty Bumppo – or Hawkeye as he is known in 'The Last of the Mohicans' – is once again at the centre of brewing trouble. The fourth in the series, 'The Pioneers' (1823) tackles not so much the conflict between natives and settlers, but the conflict between Man and Nature. All with the added bonus of a Romeo and Juliet style love story.