Seeds of hope
Subtitle: the gold rush diary of Susanna Fairchild, California Territory, 1849
By: by Kristiana Gregory.
Series: Dear America
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Gold mines and mining -- Fiction; Frontier and pioneer life -- California -- Fiction; Greed -- Fiction; Diaries -- Fiction; California -- Gold discoveries -- Juvenile fiction; California -- Gold discoveries -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: A diary account of fourteen-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his wife and money on their steamship journey from New York.  Includes a historical note.