In 1849 Jean-François Millet moved from Paris to the artists’ colony of Barbizon, where he met the Swiss artist Karl Bodmer. Bodmer, who had traveled to the United States territories and became known for depicting American Plains Indians, was commissioned in 1851 to create a series of lithographs illustrating pioneer life in America. Busy with other works, he asked Millet to assist, but the project was abruptly terminated when the publisher realized that Bodmer himself was not making the drawings. This drawing illustrates the rescue of Daniel Boone’s daughter Jemima and her friends Betsey and Frances Callaway, a story told in James Fenimore Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans.