young adventurer, or, Tom's trip across the Plains
By: Horatio Alger, Jr.
Series: Polyglot Press Alger series
Publisher: Polyglot Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction; Robbers and outlaws -- Fiction; Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction; West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Young adventurer; Tom's trip across the Plains
Description: At nearly sixteen years of age, Tom Nelson sets out for California hoping to earn money in the gold fields to pay off the mortgage on his father's farm, braving thieves, outlaws, and Indians along the way.
Notes: First published in 1878 by Loring, Boston.