The Mentor: The Contest for North America, Vol. 1, No. 35, Serial No. 35 / The Story of America in Pictures

The volume traces the struggle between French and English for control of North America through early exploration, settlements, and warfare, describing adventurous French penetration inward from the St. Lawrence, the founding of Quebec, La Salle's Mississippi expeditions and claim to the interior, English coastal settlements and assaults on French positions such as Louisbourg and Quebec, frontier raids and battles including Braddock's defeat and the Pontiac uprising, and the habits of explorers who lived off the land and relied on Indigenous alliances; it combines narrative vignettes, illustrations, and historical summary to show how exploration, military contest, and cultural contact shaped the continent's early unfolding.