Seeds of hope

the gold rush diary of Susanna Fairchild, California Territory, 1849

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Seeds of hope

the gold rush diary of Susanna Fairchild, California Territory, 1849

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A diary account of fourteen-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his wife and money on their steamship journey from New York. Includes a historical note.

Publish Date
Publisher
Scholastic
Language
English

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Series
Dear America
Genre
Fiction., Juvenile fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
[Fic]
Library of Congress
PZ7.G8619 Se 2001, PZ7.G8619Se 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6794792M
Internet Archive
seedsofhopegoldr0000greg
ISBN 10
0590511572
LCCN
00063725
OCLC/WorldCat
61692892
Library Thing
451010
Goodreads
875641

First Sentence

"We've been at sea now for eighty-seven days."

Work Description

Susanna Fairchild and her family are on board a ship sailing from New York to the West, where they plan to start a new life in Oregon. But tragedy strikes when Susanna's mother is lost to the sea. Hearing stories of great wealth, Susanna's physician father decides he wants to join the hordes of men rushing to California to mine for gold.

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