In 1848, fifteen-year-old Phoebe Brown disguises herself as a boy and runs away with her friend Robbie Robson to join in the California gold rush and, after many adventures, they eventually find themselves running a restaurant in San Francisco.
year: 1998
call number/section: 1000
subjects: runaways, fiction, gold mines and mining, sex role, business enterprises, runaway teenagers, san francisco (calif.), fiction, california, history, 1846-1850, gold discoveries