by Wills De Hass.  Softbound, 416 pages, 5-1/2" x 8-1/2".  An account of the various expeditions in the west, before 1795.  Here it was that Washington received those severe lessons in war which prepared him for the greatest achievements he so gloriously performed in later years, and here was struck the first great blow in the struggle for American Independence.  Illustrated with numerous engravings.