Erie train boy
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; Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction; Railroads -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Relates the adventures of seventeen-year-old Fred Fenton, who struggles to support his widowed mother and young brother by selling candy and reading materials on a train until his intelligence, kindness, and strength of character win him a golden opportunity.
Notes: First published in 1890 by the U.S. Book Company, New York.