The Light in the Forest

The Light in the Forest is a novel first published in 1953 by U.S. author Conrad Richter. Though it is a work of fiction and primarily features fictional characters, the novel incorporates several real people and facts from U.S. history. A 1958 feature film adaptation was produced by Walt Disney Productions and starred Fess Parker, Joanne Dru, James MacArthur and Wendell Corey. A young boy, John Cameron Butler, from a Pennsylvanian Colony in the ... more

The Light in the Forest is a novel first published in 1953 by U.S. author Conrad Richter. Though it is a work of fiction and primarily features fictional characters, the novel incorporates several real people and facts from U.S. history. A 1958 feature film adaptation was produced by Walt Disney Productions and starred Fess Parker, Joanne Dru, James MacArthur and Wendell Corey. A young boy, John Cameron Butler, from a Pennsylvanian Colony in the America's is taken hostage during a raid by a Lenni Lenape tribe during territorial wars. None of the Pennsylvanian men rescue him, and he is adopted by tribesman Cuyloga into the Indian society and rechristened "True Son". Believing himself to be of Indian blood, he hates the colonists, and eleven years later American military men come to return him to his colonial home. His Indian father reluctantly gives him back to the colonists, in exchange for the return of some Indian lands. His cousin and his friend (Half Arrow and Little Crane)... less