sentences:  With the same touch of realism which had kept Uncas and Cora apart in "The Last of the Mohicans", Cooper separates these lovers, and sends Natty's romantic interest to the arms of a younger suitor, restoring the hero to his home in the wilderness.It is the only book in the "Leatherstocking" series to show Natty Bumppo in love, and the first of Cooper's books which made important imaginative use of the Great Lakes.The sobriquet "The Pathfinder" was subsequently attached to explorer John C. Frémont.