Digging for gold
Subtitle: a story of California
By: Horatio Alger, Jr.
Series: Polyglot Press Alger series
Publisher: Polyglot Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Subjects: Conduct of life -- Fiction; Gold mines and mining -- Fiction; Business enterprises -- Fiction; California -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Overworked and underpaid by his miserly stepfather, sixteen-year-old Grant Colburn, a resourceful Iowa farm boy, travels 2000 miles to seek his fortune in the gold mines of California.
Notes: First published in 1892 by Porter & Coates, Philadelphia.