The Young Adventurer, Or, Tom's Trip Across the Plains
Author : Horatio Alger
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Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
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Author : Horatio Alger
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Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 192?
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Author : Alger Horatio
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,42 MB
Release : 2016-06-23
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ISBN : 9781318960798
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Horatio Alger (Jr)
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Page : pages
File Size : 23,78 MB
Release : 2008
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Author : Jr. Horatio Alger
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Fiction
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The novel 'The Young Adventurer; or, Tom's Trip Across the Plains', begins with Mark Nelson and his family struggling to pay the mortgage on their farm in 1850. When Tom, the eldest son, finds a wallet belonging to the Squire who owns their mortgage, he makes a proposition to loan himself the money to seek his fortune in California. As Tom embarks on his journey, he meets several characters who will shape his path, including a man who tries to rob him and a kind stranger who offers him shelter. But as he encounters danger and obstacles, will Tom be able to succeed and save his family's farm?
Author : Qiliang Feng
Publisher : 百萬英語閱讀計劃
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 29,32 MB
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Fiction
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This is Book 4, Collection III, of the Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) readers. It is suitable for learners with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words. Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) is a reading project for ESL/EFL learners at the elementary level (with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words). In two years, for about fifteen minutes each day, an ESL/EFL learner can read one million words, and reach the upper-intermediate level, gaining a vocabulary of about 3,500 words and a large number of expressions. Text Information Readability | 82.9 Total word count | 21514 Words beyond 1500 | 790 Unknown word percentage (%) | 3.67 Unknown headword occurrence | 2.58 Unknown words that occur 5 times or more | 33 Unknown words that occur 2 times or more | 145 Synopsis Mark Nelson’s farm is mortgaged to Squire Hudson for two thousand dollars. The farm is not making enough money to support the family, so his son Tom shows his wish to go to California to raise money in the gold mines. Fortunately, he finds the Squire’s wallet and returns it at once. So the Squire offers to lend Tom the money to get to California, and the debt is added to the mortgage. His parents agree, and they borrow the money from Hudson. Then Tom heads for Pittsburgh. On the train, Tom meets a young man who calls himself Milton Graham. They stay in the same room in a hotel in Pittsburgh that evening. When Tom wakes up at night, he finds Milton standing with his back turned to him, searching his pockets…. This book is rewritten from “The Young Adventurer, Or, Tom’s Trip Across The Plains” by Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832 – 1899), a 19th-century American author, most famous for his novels about the adventures of poor boys who succeed through hard work.
Author : Horatio Alger
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Page : pages
File Size : 45,27 MB
Release : 2017
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ISBN : 9783337145637
Author : Horatio Horatio Alger Jr.
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Page : 103 pages
File Size : 18,5 MB
Release : 2017-09-05
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ISBN : 9781549678356
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.At nearly sixteen years of age, Tom Nelson sets out for California hoping to earn money in the gold fields to pay off the mortgage on his father's farm, braving thieves, outlaws, and Indians along the way.
Author : Horatio Alger
Publisher : Litres
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,36 MB
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 5040464495
Author : Horatio Alger
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 15,25 MB
Release : 2018-09-23
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ISBN : 9781723954207
"The Young Adventurer" is the initial volume of the Pacific Series, four stories relating to the Pacific coast and the intervening country. This novel presents the story of Tom Nelson, who aspires to help his father meet a $2,000 mortgage by making his fortune in the California gold fields.Tom meets Nicholas Waterbury, a kind Cincinnati businessman, and the two travel together to Cincinnati. Tom then leaves for St. Joseph, Missouri, where he and another friend, Mr. Ferguson, join a wagon train for the long trip to California. Out on the plains, Tom and his friend brave thieves, outlaws and Indians before finally arriving in the Golden State.Included in this Illustrated Edition of the 1878 version of "The Young Adventurer" is the original illustration, rejuvenated, and 10 additional illustrations of pioneers crossing and settling on the prairie that are unique to this edition of the book, as well as an abbreviated biography and an annotated bibliography.Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 - July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many formulaic juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age.
Author : Horatio Alger, Jr.
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Page : 154 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 2015-11-24
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ISBN : 9781519506085
If you've ever used the phrase "rags to riches," you owe that to Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899), who popularized the idea through his fictional writings that also served as a theme for the way America viewed itself as a country. Alger's works about poor boys rising to better living conditions through hard work, determination, courage, honesty, and morals was popular with both adults and younger readers. Alger's writings happened to correspond with America's Gilded Age, a time of increasing prosperity in a nation rebuilding from the Civil War. His lifelong theme of rags to riches continued to gain popularity but has gradually lessened since the 1920s. Still, readers today often come across Ragged Dick and stories like it in school.