Chester Rand, or, A new path to fortune
By: Horatio Alger, Jr.
Series: Polyglot Press Alger series
Publisher: Polyglot Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Conduct of life -- Fiction; Artists -- Fiction; Friendship -- Fiction; Adventures and adventurers -- Fiction; Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Fiction; West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Chester Rand; New path to fortune
Description: When his miserly employer cuts his already meager salary, fifteen-year-old Chester Rand, anxious to find a better way to support himself and his widowed mother, resolves to leave their small Pennsylvania town and seek a career as a commercial artist in 1890's New York City.
Notes: First published in 1903 by Henry T. Coates & Co., Philadelphia.