California Gold

It was 1850, and fourteen-year-old Johnny James, an orphan on the streets of Boston, decided to go to the goldfields of California and leave the desperation of the slums behind.  He'd heard the stories told in the saloons about the forty-niners who'd gone there and struck it rich and determined he could as well. Along the way, Johnny picked up Jasper, another orphan, to go with him.  Jasper brough...