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The Young Adventurer; or, Tom's Trip Across the Plains

Horatio Alger · 1890

A boys' adventure novel from 1890 in which Tom Nelson, son of a poor farmer, sets out to seek his fortune and help pay off the family mortgage, traveling west in 1850 during the gold rush toward the land of gold.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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