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

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.

.....

"No, sir."

"Then why did you come here to take up my time?" demanded the squire, frowning.

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