The Young Explorer: Children's Fiction

Horatio Alger

Jul 2016 · Children's Fiction Book 80 · VM eBooks

About this ebook

CHAPTER I. BEN'S INHERITANCE.
CHAPTER II. DEACON PITKIN'S OFFER.
CHAPTER III. SAM STURGIS' NEW IDEA.
CHAPTER IV. A BRILLIANT CHANCE.
CHAPTER V. IN SEARCH OF A PLACE.
CHAPTER VI. MR. PITCH, THE SENIOR PARTNER.
CHAPTER VII. BEN'S DINNER-GUEST.
CHAPTER VIII. A STRANGE ACQUAINTANCE.
CHAPTER IX. AT THE ASTOR HOUSE.
CHAPTER X. BEN RECEIVES A CALL.
CHAPTER XI. MISS SINCLAIR'S STRATAGEM.
CHAPTER XII. IN SAN FRANCISCO.
CHAPTER XIII. PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS.
CHAPTER XIV THE CANON HOTEL.
CHAPTER XV. A POLITE HOSTESS.
CHAPTER XVI. A NEW ACQUAINTANCE.
CHAPTER XVII. A TIGHT PLACE.
CHAPTER XVIII. AN EVENING CALL.
CHAPTER XIX. BEN'S MIDNIGHT EXCURSION.
CHAPTER XX. A THIEF'S DISAPPOINTMENT.
CHAPTER XXI. BEN'S SAVINGS-BANK.
CHAPTER XXII. THE ARRIVAL AT MURPHY'S.
CHAPTER XXIII. AMONG THE SIERRAS.
CHAPTER XXIV. BEATEN AT HIS OWN GAME.
CHAPTER XXV. THE HORSE-THIEVES.
CHAPTER XXVI. WHAT NEXT?
CHAPTER XXVII. KI SING.
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE DUEL OF THE MINERS.
CHAPTER XXIX. CHINESE CHEAP LABOR.
CHAPTER XXX. A MIDNIGHT VISIT.
CHAPTER XXXI. ON THE MOUNTAIN PATH.
CHAPTER XXXII. THE MOUNTAIN CABIN.

About the author

Horatio Alger Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many young-adult 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.