Dr. Battius, a naturalist and Paul Hover, a wandering bee hunter, help Captain Middleton rescue his wife Inez, who had been kidnapped by Abiram White.  
Asa fails to return from the buffalo hunt and is later found shot to death.  Dr. Battius, a naturalist and Paul Hover, a wandering bee hunter, help Captain Middleton rescue his wife Inez, who had been kidnapped by Abiram White.  Hard-Heart, a Pawnee warrior, refuses to be adopted by a Sioux warrior and is sentenced to death by torture. Ishmael Bush captures the entire group and then sentences Abiram to death for the killing of Asa.  FTP, identify this novel which tells of the death of Natty Bumppo, the last in James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales.
Asa fails to return from the buffalo hunt and is later found shot to death.  
The Prairie