The Young Adventurer: or, Tom's Trip Across the Plains
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Horatio Alger Jr.. The Young Adventurer: or, Tom's Trip Across the Plains
CHAPTER I. MARK NELSON'S FAMILY
CHAPTER II. TOM FINDS A WALLET
CHAPTER III. TOM ASKS A LOAN
CHAPTER IV. TOM ASKS LEAVE OF ABSENCE
CHAPTER V. TOM RAISES THE MONEY
CHAPTER VI. TOM ARRIVES IN PITTSBURG
CHAPTER VII. THE PITTSBURG HOUSE
CHAPTER VIII. GRAHAM IN HIS TRUE COLORS
CHAPTER IX. THE "RIVER BELLE."
CHAPTER X. ON THE STEAMER
CHAPTER XI. THE FIRST DAY ON THE RIVER
CHAPTER XII. NO. 61 AND NO. 62
CHAPTER XIII. GRAHAM'S DISAPPOINTMENT
CHAPTER XIV. COMING TO AN UNDERSTANDING
CHAPTER XV. THE ALLEGHANY HOUSE
CHAPTER XVI. THE EVENTS OF A MORNING
CHAPTER XVII. TOM'S ARREST
CHAPTER XVIII. TOM GETS OUT OF HIS DIFFICULTY
CHAPTER XIX. A MISSOURI TAVERN
CHAPTER XX. ST. JOE
CHAPTER XXI. HOW THINGS WENT ON AT HOME
CHAPTER XXII. THE YOUNG MAN FROM BOSTON
CHAPTER XXIII. MR. PEABODY'S TROUBLES
CHAPTER XXIV. A SAD SIGHT
CHAPTER XXV. A NIGHT PANIC
CHAPTER XXVI. MR. PEABODY IS WORSTED
CHAPTER XXVII. THE LOST HORSE
CHAPTER XXVIII. INDIAN CASUISTRY
CHAPTER XXIX. A RACE FOR LIFE
CHAPTER XXX. TOM BECOMES AN INDIAN
CHAPTER XXXI. TOM GIVES A MAGICAL SOIREE
CHAPTER XXXII. TOM'S ESCAPE
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Since the time of which I am writing, over sixty years have passed, for it was in the year 1850 that Tom made up his mind to leave home and seek a fortune. The papers were full of the new gold discoveries in the new country which had recently been added to the great republic. Thousands were hurrying to the land of gold; men who had been unfortunate at home, or, though moderately well situated, were seized by the spirit of adventure. At considerable sacrifice many raised the means of reaching the new El Dorado, while others borrowed or appropriated the necessary sum. Some, able to do neither, set out on a venture, determined to get there in some way.
In the weekly paper, to which Mr. Nelson had for years been a subscriber, Tom had read a good deal about California. His youthful fancy had been wrought upon by the brilliant pictures of a land where a penniless man might, if favored by fortune, secure a competence in a twelvemonth, and he ardently wished that he, too, might have the chance of going there. It was a wish, but not an expectation. It would cost at least two hundred dollars to reach the Pacific coast, and there was no hope of getting a tithe of that sum.
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"No, sir."
"Then why did you come here to take up my time?" demanded the squire, frowning.
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