The Young Miner; Or, Tom Nelson in California

by Horatio, Jr. Alger

1894 · Conduct of life -- Fiction, Miners -- Fiction, California -- Gold discoveries -- Fiction, California -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction · 32 chapters

Children's fiction in 32 chapters by Horatio, Jr. Alger. It opens on Tom, with Bill and John alongside. It begins: “A dozen men, provided with rockers, were busily engaged in gathering and washing dirt, mingled with gold-dust, on the banks of a small stream in California”.

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