An edition of Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild (Dear America) (2001)

Seeds of hope

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

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An edition of Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild (Dear America) (2001)

Seeds of hope

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

by

  • 39 Want to read
  • 6 Have read

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.

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Scholastic
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English

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Gold discoveries, Frontier and pioneer life, Diaries, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Avarice, Gold mines and mining, Greed, Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Découvertes d'or, Children's fiction, Gold mines and mining, fiction, Greed, fiction, California, fiction, United states, history, fiction

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Cover of: Seeds of Hope
Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild, California Territory 1849 (Dear America Series)
November 1, 2003, Scholastic
Library Binding in English
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Cover of: Seeds of hope
Seeds of hope: the gold rush diary of Susanna Fairchild, California Territory, 1849
2001, Scholastic
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild (Dear America)
Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild (Dear America)
2001, Scholastic
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat

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

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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

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First Sentence

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

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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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