Horatio Alger's novel "The Young Adventurer" presents the story of Tom Nelson, the brave hero. Tom Nelson braves thieves, outlaws and Indians on his journey to California to seek his fortune. In the Pacific Series. Mark Nelson, a New England farmer with a wife and four children, has a $2,000 mortgage and is unable to remain solvent. His oldest son, Tom, aspires to help his father financially by heading for the California mine fields. Tom leaves by train for Pittsburgh. He meets Nicholas Waterbury, a kind Cincinnati businessman, and the two travel together to Cincinnati. Tom then leaves for St. Joseph, Missouri, where he and a friend, Mr. Ferguson, join a wagon train for the long trip to California. Out on the plains, Tom and his friend are sent on horseback to recover a horse that had wandered off. They succeed, and Tom returns to the wagon train, which finally arrives in California.
- ISBN13 9781105648946
- Publish Date 6 April 2012
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format eBook (OEB)
- Language English