Mary Ingles is a Virginia homesteader whose family is suddenly attacked by a Shawnee war party. After Mary is taken captive, the leader of the war party is impressed by her courage and strength, and decides to make her his mate. Mary then makes the dangerous decision to escape the Shawnee village with another captive woman. Together they embark on a harrowing journey through the Virginia wilderness toward freedom and home.

The classic novel by James Fenimore Cooper about the French and Indian War, and a white frontiersman raised by Indians. A passionate romance between the adopted son of the Mohicans and the daughter of a proud British Colonel is set against the backdrop of the frontier ravaged by war. Their love withstands the elements of fate amidst the brutal conflict between the British, the French and Native American allies in the mountains and virgin forests...