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Author:
Alger, Horatio, Jr., 1832-1899.
Title:
Digging for gold : a story of California / by Horatio Alger, Jr.
Publisher:
John C. Winston Co.,
Copyright Date:
Date of publication not identified, ©1892
Description:
iv, 352 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Subject:
Gold mines and mining--Fiction.
Business enterprises--Fiction.
California--History--19th century--Fiction.
Youth--Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.
Success--Juvenile fiction.
Diligence--Juvenile fiction.
Friendship--Juvenile fiction.
Boys--Juvenile fiction.
Pictorial bindings--Specimens.
Notes:
Illustrated frontispiece. Some printings have colored frontispiece for "Horatio Alger's books for boys and girls" and include 3 colored plates. Publisher's advertising on verso of title page and following text. Contents of lists following text vary by printing. Binding varies: Red cloth binding with stamped illustration on front cover and spine, 2 variants. Gray cloth binding with stamped illustration on front cover and spine.
Summary:
Overworked and underpaid by his miserly stepfather, sixteen-year-old Grant Colburn, a resourceful Iowa farm boy, travels 2,000 miles to seek his fortune in the gold mines of California.
Series:
New world series / Horation Alger
OCLC:
(OCoLC)3027198
Locations:
PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

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