The young adventurer : or, Tom's trip across the plains

Date:

[?]

Author:

Alger, Horatio, Jr., 1832-1899.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH A395 Y6 LOCAL

Publisher:

Porter & Coates

Abstract:

At nearly sixteen years of age, Tom Nelson sets out for California hoping to earn money in the gold fields to pay off the mortgage on his father's farm, braving thieves, outlaws, and Indians along the way.

Physical Description:

293 pages, [2] pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Custodial History:

Bookplate: The Horatio Alger, Jr. Collection in memory of John W. Eastlack, Class of 1942.

Series:

The Pacific series ; v. 1. and Pacific series ; v. 1.

Notes:

Followed by The Young Miner.

Subjects:

Youth Conduct of life Juvenile fiction, Overland journeys to the Pacific Juvenile fiction, Outlaws Juvenile fiction, Indians of North America West (U.S.) Juvenile fiction, Gold mines and mining California Juvenile fiction, Success Juvenile fiction, Diligence Juvenile fiction, Inheritance and succession Juvenile fiction, Friendship Juvenile fiction, Boys Juvenile fiction, Boys, Diligence, Friendship, Gold mines and mining, Indians of North America, Inheritance and succession, Outlaws, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Success, and Youth Conduct of life

Genres/Forms:

Fiction, History, and Juvenile works

Chronological Terms:

1860-1890 fast

Geographic Terms:

California Juvenile fiction, West (U.S.) History 1860-1890 Juvenile fiction, California, and West United States