EDWARD STRATEMEYER’S BOOKS Old Glory Series _Six Volumes. Cloth. Illustrated. Price per volume_ $1.25. UNDER DEWEY AT MANILA. A YOUNG VOLUNTEER IN CUBA. FIGHTING IN CUBAN WATERS. UNDER OTIS IN THE PHILIPPINES. THE CAMPAIGN OF THE JUNGLE. UNDER MacARTHUR IN LUZON. Stratemeyer Popular Series _Ten Volumes. Cloth. Illustrated. Price per volume_ $1.00. THE LAST CRUISE OF THE SPITFIRE. REUBEN STONE’S DISCOVERY. TRUE TO HIMSELF. RICHARD DARE’S VENTURE. OLIVER BRIGHT’S SEARCH. TO ALASKA FOR GOLD. THE YOUNG AUCTIONEER. BOUND TO BE AN ELECTRICIAN. SHORTHAND TOM, THE REPORTER. FIGHTING FOR HIS OWN. Soldiers of Fortune Series _Cloth. Illustrated. Price per volume_ $1.25. ON TO PEKIN. UNDER THE MIKADO’S FLAG. AT THE FALL OF PORT ARTHUR. UNDER TOGO FOR JAPAN. American Boys’ Biographical Series _Cloth. Illustrated. Price per volume_ $1.25. AMERICAN BOYS’ LIFE OF WILLIAM McKINLEY. AMERICAN BOYS’ LIFE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Colonial Series _Cloth. Illustrated. Price per volume_ $1.25. WITH WASHINGTON IN THE WEST. MARCHING ON NIAGARA. THE FORT IN THE WILDERNESS. AT THE FALL OF MONTREAL. ON THE TRAIL OF PONTIAC. Pan-American Series _Cloth. Illustrated. Price per volume_ $1.25. LOST ON THE ORINOCO. THE YOUNG VOLCANO EXPLORERS. YOUNG EXPLORERS OF THE ISTHMUS. YOUNG EXPLORERS OF THE AMAZON. Dave Porter Series _Cloth. Illustrated. Price per volume_ $1.25. DAVE PORTER AT OAK HALL. * * * * * TWO YOUNG LUMBERMEN. _Price_ $1.25. BETWEEN BOER AND BRITON. _Price_ $1.25. JOE, THE SURVEYOR. _Price_ $1.00. LARRY, THE WANDERER. _Price_ $1.00. [Illustration: Col. Washington was in the thickest of the fight.--_Page 278._] Colonial Series WITH WASHINGTON IN THE WEST OR A SOLDIER BOY’S BATTLES IN THE WILDERNESS BY EDWARD STRATEMEYER Author of “On to Pekin,” “Between Boer and Briton,” “Old Glory Series,” “Colonial Series,” “Pan-American Series,” “Great American Industries Series,” “American Boys’ Life of William McKinley,” etc. _ILLUSTRATED BY A. B. SHUTE_ [Illustration] BOSTON: LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO. COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY LEE AND SHEPARD _All rights reserved_ WITH WASHINGTON IN THE WEST Norwood Press BERWICK & SMITH Norwood, Mass. U.S.A. PREFACE “WITH WASHINGTON IN THE WEST” is a complete story in itself, but forms the first of several volumes to be known by the general title of “Colonial Series.” The main character of the book is David Morris, the son of a hardy pioneer who first settles near Will’s Creek (now the town of Cumberland, Virginia), and later on establishes a trading-post on one of the numerous tributaries of the Ohio River.