By Paddle Wheel and Pack Train. John Hamlin, Illustrated by Charles Hargens, J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1941.
 
Juvenile Fiction - Adventure
 
Good adventure yard and a different sort of story of a westward trek. Robert Whipple runs away from home in New Hampshire, heading west, and seizing upon any and every means that offers, stowaway on wagon, coach, canal boat; oar boy on a flatboat, mule rider in a caravan, meeting friends and enemies, and acquiring new responsibilities. But he gets there -- and finds his gold, in moderate degree.

Orange with brown illustrated cover and illustrated endpapers. Jacket has some small corner chips/tears & edges creases. Nice condition. About 8-1/2 x 6 with 265 pages. Signed/inscribed by author at half title page. Illustrated. Scarce with jacket. Collectible.