Seeds of hope : the gold rush diary of Susanna Fairchild, California Territory, 1849
Title:
Seeds of hope : the gold rush diary of Susanna Fairchild, California Territory, 1849
Author:
Gregory, Kristiana
ISBN:
9780590511575
Publication Information:
New York : Scholastic, 2001
Physical Description:
186 p. ; 20 cm
Series:
Dear America
Series Title:
Dear America
General Note:
Summary: 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.
Subject:
| Gold mines and mining -- Juvenile fiction |
| Frontier and pioneer life -- California -- Juvenile fiction |
| Greed -- Juvenile fiction |
| Diaries -- Juvenile fiction |
| California -- Gold discoveries -- Juvenile fiction |