In the summer of 1959, Suzie, a girl who travels with her family to the Pennsylvania mountains every year, and Sam, a young Seneca boy who lives along the river road, experience an adventure that will challenge the bonds of friendship and threaten to tear them apart. Soon, the calm existence of life on the mountain will change as the Kinzua Dam Project promises to flood the Allegheny and thousands of acres of Seneca land. Suzie and Sam try to deal with the prospect of never seeing each other again. They continue to grow a strong connection, almost magical and spiritual, as one escapade after another seems to follow them. A Pleasant View is a journey of human struggle and accomplishment, a tale of the human spirit as it grows and survives. Filled with Seneca culture and legend, this adventure gives a rich, lively account of life in the picturesque wilderness of northwestern Pennsylvania.