The film confines itself to one scene after another of the Leatherstocking country around Otsego Lake near Cooperstown, N. Y. Present-day views of the spot where Deerslayer killed his first Indian, or the place where Judith bade farewell to her beloved Deerslayer- with a motor launch skipping over the water. There are the vacation ceremonies of some imported "pale-face maidens," dressed in Indian costume, who frolic in "Pathfinder Lodge" - where once stood the wigwam of the red man. A scene following Leatherstocking through his adventures- is the scene of Natty Bumppo's Cave - which except for some carved initials, looks as it might have, then.
—The Educational Screen (January, 1923)