Tom Temple's career
By: Horatio Alger, Jr.
Series: Polyglot Press Alger series
Publisher: Polyglot Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Inheritance and succession -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction; Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Fiction; California -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: When his late father's poor investments diminish his inheritance, irrepressible, sixteen-year-old Tom Temple leaves the home of his greedy and miserly guardians and travels to New York City, where he is hired by a merchant to track down a fugitive embezzler in California.
Notes: First published in 1888 by A.L. Burt, New York.