With Washington in the West; Or, a Soldier Boy's Battles in the Wilderness
1901
With Washington in the West; Or, a Soldier Boy's Battles in the Wilderness
1901
A rip-roaring frontier adventure from 1901, following fourteen-year-old David Morris as he leaves his uncle's farm near Will's Creek, Virginia, and plunges into the turbulent world of colonial America. When David receives word from White Buffalo, a Delaware Indian friend, that his father has vanished somewhere in the western wilderness, the boy determines to find him. Along the way, he encounters a young George Washington himself, riding through the Ohio Valley on the eve of the French and Indian War. David witnesses the mounting tensions between English traders and French settlers, learns to survive in the wilderness, and transforms from a farm boy into a soldier fighting for frontier survival. Stratemeyer, whose formula would later birth the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, delivers the kind of breathless boys' adventure that made him a publishing sensation: part historical education, part pure adventure, all page-turning momentum.
