The Masters of the Peaks by Joseph Altsheler

Historical novel from the French and Indian War series. The Masters of the Peaks, while presenting a complete story in itself is the fourth volume of the French and Indian War Series, of which the predecessors were The Hunters of the Hills, The Shadow of the North, and The Rulers of the Lakes. Robert Lennox, Tayoga, Willet, and all the other important characters of the earlier romances reappear in the present book. According to Wikipedia: Joseph Alexander Altsheler (1862 - 1919), was an American author of popular juvenile historical fiction. Altsheler was born in Three Springs, Kentucky to Joseph and Louise Altsheler. In 1885, he took a job at the Louisville Courier-Journal as a reporter and later, an editor. He started working for the New York World in 1892, first as the papers Hawaiian correspondent and then as the editor of the Worlds tri-weekly magazine. Due to a lack of suitable stories, he began writing childrens stories for the magazine.