Chester Rand, The New Path to Fortune is an exciting story of a courageous boy who is hired as a newspaper artist. It then follows his life as he grows and succeeds. Chester Rand is part of a series of rags to riches stories of boys working hard and achieving the American dream of wealth. Horatio Alger, Jr. authored about seventy books. He was the son of a clergyman, graduated from Harvard. His stories are pure, inspiring and as endearing today as they were when first published.