Western boy, or, The road to success
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; Inheritance and succession -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction; Uncles -- Fiction; Cincinnati (Ohio) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Western boy; Road to success
Description: Having learned that he is heir to a sizeable fortune, fifteen-year-old Tom Grey leaves his shoe shining work in New York City and moves to Cincinnati, hoping to find the uncle who schemed to deprive him of his birthright.
Notes: First published in 1878 by G.W. Carleton & Co. & Street & Smith, New York.