The novel “The Valley of Wish-ton-Wish” (The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish) is devoted to an Indian theme—XVII-century battles of American colonists with the Indians.
The time and place of the novel: the last quarter of the 17th century, the North American continent.
The story of three generations of the Hitcote family is not only an intense struggle for the right to find their happiness on the land of a new homeland. It is, in miniature, the history of the confrontation between English-speaking settlers and the indigenous peoples of the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island—written very often in blood; a story full of—thanks to the tragic intertwining of the heroes’ fates—unexpected twists and mysteries that keep the reader, as is typical with Cooper, in unrelenting tension until the final chapters of the novel.