Chapter I: Front Matter

WITH GEORGE WASHINGTON INTO
THE WILDERNESS

_The American Trail Blazers_

“THE STORY GRIPS AND THE HISTORY STICKS”

These books present in the form of vivid and fascinating fiction, the early and adventurous phases of American history. Each volume deals with the life and adventures of one of the great men who made that history, or with some one great event in which, perhaps, several heroic characters were involved. The stories, though based upon accurate historical fact, are rich in color, full of dramatic action, and appeal to the imagination of the red-blooded man or boy.

Each volume illustrated in color and black and white.

INTO MEXICO WITH GENERAL SCOTT
LOST WITH LIEUTENANT PIKE
GENERAL CROOK AND THE FIGHTING APACHES
OPENING THE WEST WITH LEWIS AND CLARK
WITH CARSON AND FREMONT
DANIEL BOONE: BACKWOODSMAN
BUFFALO BILL AND THE OVERLAND TRAIL
CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH
DAVID CROCKETT: SCOUT
ON THE PLAINS WITH CUSTER
GOLD SEEKERS OF ’49
WITH SAM HOUSTON IN TEXAS
WITH GEORGE WASHINGTON INTO THE WILDERNESS

WITH
GEORGE WASHINGTON
INTO THE WILDERNESS

THE ADVENTURES OF ROBERT THE HUNTER WHILE HE WAS
LEARNING TO BE A NEW AMERICAN UNDER THE YOUNG CHIEF,
GEORGE WASHINGTON, WHEN THE OHIO COUNTRY WAS GAINED
FOR THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLE AND WASHINGTON HIMSELF
WON THE RIGHT TO HIGH COMMAND IN WAR AND PEACE

BY
EDWIN L. SABIN

AUTHOR OF “WITH CARSON AND FREMONT,” “BUFFALO
BILL AND THE OVERLAND TRAIL,” ETC.

_WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY_
WILL THOMSON
_PORTRAIT AND MAP_

PHILADELPHIA & LONDON
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
1924

COPYRIGHT, 1924, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS
PHILADELPHIA, U. S. A.

TO THE

AMERICAN VOLUNTEER SOLDIER

WHO FROM THE DAYS OF THE “RAW
PROVINCIALS” TO THE DAYS OF THE
KHAKI “YANKS” HAS EMULATED THE
SPIRIT OF YOUNG GEORGE WASHINGTON
IN THE SERVICE OF HIS COUNTRY

“I shall have the consolation of knowing that I have opened the way, when the smallness of our numbers exposed us to the attacks of a superior enemy; that I have hitherto stood the heat and brunt of the day, and escaped untouched in time of extreme danger; and that I have the thanks of my country, for the services I have rendered it.”

COLONEL GEORGE WASHINGTON,
November 15, 1754