Fortune's Price
A Gold Rush Odyssey
by Frank Nissen
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Pub Date May 15 2025 | Archive Date Jul 29 2025
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Description
Maxy Awards 2025 Runner-Up: Historical & Adventure
"Fortune's Call is superbly written. Great contrast in characters, and the historical detail is incredible. Great authenticity. Once you start reading, I dare you to put it down!" -James Robert Daniels, author of The Comanche Kid and Jane Fury
Pegg, 14, yearned for adventure. He and his father left their family on a hardscrabble farm in Vermont to chase a desperate dream. After his dad died of fever on the high plains, Pegg's confident world fell apart. He found himself saddled with their partner, Fred Hoyt, who proved worse than useless.
Now, it is up to Pegg to keep his father's dream alive. But California in the 1850's is a raw, lawless place, full of constant danger. Subsisting largely on hope, Pegg battles wild rivers, savage beasts, floods and fires. Even when the American River yields the gold that will allow Pegg to return home in triumph, Hoyt's addiction to trouble threatens not only Pegg's success, but their very lives. Can the boy who trusts too much keep his duplicitous partner from driving them to ruin?
Advance Praise
Maxy Awards 2025 Runner-Up: Historical & Adventure
"Fortune's Call is superbly written. Great contrast in characters, and the historical detail is incredible. Great authenticity. Once you start reading, I dare you to put it down!" -James Robert Daniels, author of The Comanche Kid and Jane Fury
"Telling the story from, 14 yr old, Pegg's perspective, Nissen lets you feel what it was like to travel thousands of miles across the country, the sights and smells of wagon trains fording rivers and climbing mountains, the deprivation and pain, and the unexpected joys." -Bill Baynes, author of The Occupation of Joe
"This book would be great for adults who appreciate historical action adventure, and for young readers. It should be in public and school libraries... I love how the author weaves historical details into the fictional story without turning it into a boring history lesson. I felt transported back to gold rush days..." -Nicolle Goldman, author of That Pilgrimage Book
