Seeds of Hope

By Kristiana Gregory

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

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.