The Young Adventurer; or, Tom.s Trip Across the Plains 7+

📕 Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author whose principal output was juvenile novels following the adventures of bootblacks, newsboys, peddlers, buskers, and other impoverished children in their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of respectable middle-class security and comfort. His novels were hugely popular in their day.