Fifteen-year-old Joe is a drudge in a household where the spoiled Oscar Norton orders him to brush his coat. Refusing to stay a servant, he scrapes together the fare to California in the days of the Gold Rush, where he waits on tables, tries the diggings, and must keep his wits about him when robbers such as Hogan and Rafferty eye his earnings.
Alger’s familiar rise through pluck and honesty, given extra colour by the mining camps of 1849. Download the free EPUB.