When Uncle Job settles his late father’s estate, Ben Stanton finds he has very little money and a deacon eager to put him to dull work. He sets out instead, first to the city and then across to California, where mining camps, rough strangers and a promised fortune in the Sierra Nevada test his honesty and nerve.
A classic Alger rags-to-riches story with a Gold Rush setting, for readers who enjoy pluck rewarded. Download the free EPUB.