02816cam a22003733u 4500 76812 UtSlPG 20260610134758.0 m cr n 260607r20251909utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PZ Franklin, Roy Fighting for fortune Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Alger series, no. 175 Release date is 2025-09-04 Demian Katz and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (Images courtesy of the Digital Library@Villanova University.) "Fighting for Fortune; or, Making a Place for Himself" by Roy Franklin is a juvenile adventure novel written in the early 20th century. Set around Lake Seneca, it follows determined youth Dean Mercer as he breaks from a law apprenticeship to launch a rival steamboat line with the backing of Judge Oglesby, while facing sabotage and scheming from entrenched interests. Allies like the salty Jack Carboy aid him, as bullies Tim Downey and Rodney Darringford plot theft, fraud, and arson; a parallel thread involves Dean helping Marcus Ellison in the fight to clear Marcus’s father of a wrongful charge. The opening of the story shows Dean quitting the musty law office, rescuing newcomer Marcus from a beating, and accepting two critical errands: safeguarding papers and money to aid Marcus’s father, and carrying an $8,000 check to pay for the new steamer, the Spray. After Tim Downey overhears these plans, he alerts Rodney and Colonel Darringford, the Warrior sails early, and Dean and Jack chase it by stage—surviving a crash—then reboard at Landlock. In Springfield, a con man posing as the builder tricks Dean out of the check, which Rodney later cashes by impersonating him; meanwhile Tim spies through a secret stateroom panel, intercepts Marcus and his wallet, and sets an arson scheme in motion. By morning, the Spray still stands but the money is gone, and Dean, visiting Marcus’s home, learns the boy never returned—leaving the new venture and Marcus’s family in sudden peril. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: New York: Street & Smith Corporation, 1909 Adventure stories Teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction Dime novels Youth -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction Alger series, no. 175 https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:1120913 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76812 117537 117537