young explorer, or, Among the Sierras
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; Orphans -- Fiction; Inheritance and succession -- Fiction; Gold mines and mining -- Fiction; Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction; California -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Young explorer; Among the Sierras
Description: After rejecting job offers from condescending and exploitative employers, sixteen-year-old Ben Stanton, a resourceful and self-reliant orphan, ventures out West to California to seek his fortune.
Notes: First published in 1880 by Loring, Boston.