The Young Adventurer (Illustrated)

by Horatio Alger, Jr

Overview

"The Young Adventurer" is the initial volume of the Pacific Series, four stories relating to the Pacific coast and the intervening country. This novel presents the story of Tom Nelson, who aspires to help his father meet a $2,000 mortgage by making his fortune in the California gold fields.

Tom meets Nicholas Waterbury, a kind Cincinnati businessman, and the two travel together to Cincinnati. Tom then leaves for St. Joseph, Missouri, where he and another friend, Mr. Ferguson, join a wagon train for the long trip to California. Out on the plains, Tom and his friend brave thieves, outlaws and Indians before finally arriving in the Golden State.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940158093425
Publisher:	New York: Hurst & Company, Publishers, 1878
Publication date:	04/26/2016
Series:	Classic Fiction for Young Adults , #157
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many formulaic juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age.