Seeds of Hope
The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild (Dear America)
by Kristiana Gregory · 2001
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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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