Two years later, Abraham marries his stepsister, Elizabeth Fletcher, and they purchase a tract of land on the Great Miami River, near Fort Hamilton, where begins farming corn.

Abraham, distraught, sells the farm and makes his way back to Boston with Jared to learn that his father Philip has recently died.

Abraham meets his half-brother Gilbert and takes a job in the family business, the Kent and Son printers, but the trauma of Elizabeth's death makes him unsuccessful.

Her second husband, Andrew Piggott, is a compulsive gambler and womaniser who loses the publishing firm to Lt. Stovall in a game of craps.

With his dying breath, Blackthorn tells Jared he sold Amanda to fur traders going up the Missouri River.

For instance, as foreseen by Gilbert Kent, his brother Abraham dies in a Boston alley but not before reuniting with his son Jared, who is oblivious to his identity.

The film's ending also differs from the book, in that Jared and Amanda (now married to an Indian while discouraging war with the Tribes) are reunited briefly before each goes their separate ways.