Richard Dare's Venture; Or, Striking Out for Himself

Edward Stratemeyer (1862-1930) was American businessman and writer. He was one of founders of book-packaging technique based on using of work of multiple freelance authors and used it for his own enterprise, Stratemeyer Syndicate. This was a great contribution to forming of children's fiction genre.
Richard Dare's Venture is a children's novel by Edward Stratemeyer, first one in his Bound to Succeed series. The story is about Richard, a young American boy from countryside. Like many deed before and after him, he went to New-York to find his fortune there. But he is about to learn, that life in the Big Apple is no fairy tale, and there is a long way to go to find a decent place in town for an village folk. Will Richard conquer the New-York city or will be conquered by? Read and find out!