Horatio Alger Jr : 203 books

Published in 1892 by the John C. Winston Co., "Digging for Gold" tells this story: overworked and underpaid by his miserly stepfather, sixteen-year-old Grant Colburn, a resourceful Iowa farm boy, travels 2,000 miles to seek his fortune in the gold mines of California. Horatio Alger,...

"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...

From Farm Boy to Senator: Being the History of the Boyhood and Manhood of Daniel Webter written by Horatio Alger Jr. who was an American writer. This book was published in 1882. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While...

Not many minutes walk from Broadway, situated on one of the cross streets intersecting the great thoroughfare, is a large building not especially inviting in its aspect, used as a lodging and boarding-house. It is very far from fashionable, since, with hardly an exception, those who avail themselves...

Ragged Dick is a homeless fourteen-year-old bootblack, known to be an honest young man. He is generous and industrious, but he is a spendthrift. He is a good-looking boy that appears aristocratic with a frank and open face. Dick must handle con artists, bullies, false accusations of theft, and, most...

Rough and Ready is Book #4 in the Ragged Dick series, and another exciting story. Rufus (or "Rough & Ready" as his street name), an entrepreneurial newsboy, escapes with his younger sister from an abusive, drunken step-father, and vows to set up a better life for them even though this...

Gilbert Greyson is rich. He is finishing boarding school, readying himself for college, and his future looks bright. And why not? His father willed him $75,000. Today, 2019, that is $1.8 million! A tidy sum, for certain. But his dishonest guardian swindles Gilbert out of his inheritance and in short...

Chester Rand does his best to support himself and his widowed mother on three dollars a week. But, he experiences many work problems from a series of abusive employers. Finally, having had some luck as an artist, Chester leaves Pennsylvania and goes to New York City to do art full-time. Horatio...

Both his parents having died, Ben Stanton is alone. His uncle has just finished settling Ben's father's estate, and Ben has realized $365.19, a princely sum in the 1880s. He has an offer to work for his uncle in Hampton, his small, East-coast hometown, but he's not interested in working inside. Instead,...

A Chicago newsboy, Luke Walton, sets out to find the man who has defrauded money from Luke's mother. He is blocked at every turn by evil-doers, and it's not at all certain that Luke will succeed! This edition of the book contains the original frontpiece, rejuvenated, and nine additional illustrations...

This is the second book in The Pacific Series. It is about Tom Nelson's adventures in the California gold mines in an attempt to earn enough money to save his father's farm from being repossessed by the evil Squire Hudson. Tom accumulates and loses his nest egg more than once, but perseveres through...

Do and Dare is the story of Herbert Carr, the son of a war widow who had assumed her husband's place as postmaster of the small rural town in Wayneboro. Widow Carr is upset because Squire Walsingham is using his political influence to take the post away from the widow and put into the hands of his...

Published in 1900, this book follows the adventures of intrepid sixteen-year-old Dean Dunham as he travels to find his fortune and tries to solve the mystery of his uncle's robbery. A classic novel loaded with action and adventure. Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was...

First published in 1873 by A. L. Burt Company, Bound to Rise tells the story of Harry Walton, the son of a farmer who is experiencing rough financial times. Using Benjamin Franklin as a model, Henry sets out to save his family's farm from a dishonorable man's loan of exorbitant interest rate through...