Joe, the hotel boy, or, Winning out by pluck
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; Hotels, motels, etc. -- Fiction; Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction; Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Joe, the hotel boy; Winning out by pluck
Description: Joe Bodley, who has been raised by a hermit uncle in a Pennsylvania cabin, finds work in a series of hotels when his uncle dies, and through several lucky encounters, eventually finds his supposedly dead father, the unwitting owner of a valuable mine out West.
Notes: First published in 1906 by Cupples & Leon, New York.