"Hawkeye The First Frontier"

A gentile lady named Elizabeth, along with her husband, William, travel north to open a new trading post in Fort Bennington. When they first arrive, they encounter dangerous Indians, valuable friends, and deceitful people. Hawkeye, a man living in the wild, along with his native friend, rescues this couple from the attacking Iroquois Indians. All the while, the British and French forces struggle against each other for privileges to certain pieces of land. As I sat down with my sister to watch the first episode of the series Hawkeye, I was not prepared for all of what went on in the next fifty minutes: deceit, Indians, a fight, a kidnapping, and shootings. That was only the beginning part of the first episode. This episode, called the Pilot, ended with a kidnapping, and that got me excited to watch and see how the rest of the series would play out.

One thing that mainly stuck out to me was the deceit that happened between two brothers. William and Elizabeth came to Fort Bennington to join William’s brother, who was already stationed there, and start a trading post. Before they arrived, William wanted his brother to secure trading contracts with other trading posts around the area, but he had not completed the task before William and Elizabeth had arrived. Therefore, William urged him to finish it in the next couple of days. William’s brother did not like to be given orders, so he planned to have William captured by the French and taken away.  To accomplish this task, he told William that he had created trading relationships with the French and that he would need to go and meet with them. When William went to meet with them and discuss business, they captured him and took him away.

I honestly could not believe that a family member would do such a despicable thing to his own brother. I know that sometimes siblings can be a pain; but I would never set up the kidnapping of any of my siblings. William’s brother was obviously very selfish to be only thinking of himself and not how this would affect William, his wife, or their new business. The writers made an excellent attention-grabbing plot line which has kept me yearning to continue the series. I do hope as I finish the watching this series that William will be recused and his brother will see that what he did was inappropriate and apologize to William.