The fort in the wilderness

THE SOLDIER BOYS OF THE INDIAN TRAILS
BY EDWARD STRATEMEYER
Author of With Washington in the West, Larry the Wanderer, American Boys' Life of William McKinley, Old Glory Series, Pan-American Series, etc.
ILLUSTRATED BY A. B. SHUTE
BOSTON LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.
Published September, 1905. Copyright, 1905, by Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Company All rights reserved
The Fort in the Wilderness
Norwood Press Berwick and Smith Co. Norwood, Mass. U. S. A.
The Fort in the Wilderness is a complete tale in itself, but forms the fifth volume in a line known under the general title of Colonial Series.
When I began this series I had in mind to pen not more than three volumes, embracing colonial times during the fourth intercolonial war, when Canada, and the territory lying between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi, were wrested from the domination of France. The first volume, entitled With Washington in the West, told of the disastrous Braddock campaign against Fort Duquesne; the second, called Marching on Niagara, related the particulars of General Forbes's expedition against Fort Duquesne, and also the advance of Generals Prideaux and Johnson against Fort Niagara; while the third volume, At the Fall of Montreal, took our youthful heroes down the mighty St. Lawrence, to fight under General Wolfe and to witness the conclusion of a struggle which had lasted for years and had been bloody in the extreme.
After this war the Colonists hoped for peace, but this was not to be. The Indians were enraged to see the English occupying territory which they considered their own, and soon, led by the wily and resourceful Pontiac, they entered into a conspiracy to fall upon all the frontier forts and settlements simultaneously and massacre all who dared oppose them. There was a demand that I relate something of these times to my youthful readers, and in the fourth volume of the series, called On the Trail of Pontiac, I told of what was done by Indians and whites during the years 1761 and 1762, when the great conspiracy was slowly drawing to a head and more than one small settlement was wiped out in the crudest manner imaginable.