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Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1836[1] – May 5, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, fiction, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction. As he moved from California to the eastern U.S. to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but his Gold Rush tales have been most often reprinted, adapted, and admired.]]> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:27:11 +0300 https://fiction.library.land/bret-harte/9602-flip__a_california_romance.html https://fiction.library.land/bret-harte/9602-flip__a_california_romance.html
Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1836[1] – May 5, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, fiction, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction. As he moved from California to the eastern U.S. to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but his Gold Rush tales have been most often reprinted, adapted, and admired.]]> Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:26:22 +0300 https://fiction.library.land/bret-harte/9621-tennessees_partner.html https://fiction.library.land/bret-harte/9621-tennessees_partner.html
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A wonderful collection of tales by Bret Harte, including The Luck of the Roaring Camp, first published in the August 1868 issue of the Overland Monthly and which helped push Harte to international prominence. The story is about the birth of a baby boy in a 19th century gold prospecting camp. The boy's mother, Cherokee Sal, dies in childbirth, so the men of Roaring Camp must raise it themselves. Believing the child to be a good luck charm, the miners christen the boy Thomas Luck. Afterwards, they decide to refine their behavior and refrain from gambling and fighting. At the end of the story, however, Luck and a villager, Kentuck, perish in a flash flood that strikes the camp. The flood theme may have come from the Great Flood of California, witnessed by Harte in 1862, which resulted from weeks of torrential rains throughout the entire state, combined with warming temperatures in mid January that melted the snowpack. In addition to the melt-waters, according to the Sacramento Union newspapers of the day, six to ten feet of rain fell in some mining areas near Grass Valley.]]> Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:21:07 +0300 https://fiction.library.land/bret-harte/9413-the_argonauts_of_north_liberty.html https://fiction.library.land/bret-harte/9413-the_argonauts_of_north_liberty.html
A Classic .......]]> Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:08:49 +0300 https://fiction.library.land/bret-harte/9700-trents_trust,_and_other_stories.html https://fiction.library.land/bret-harte/9700-trents_trust,_and_other_stories.html
Randolph Trent stepped from the Stockton boat on the San Francisco wharf, penniless, friendless, and unknown. Hunger might have been added to his trials, for, having paid his last coin in passage money, he had been a day and a half without food. Yet he knew it only by an occasional lapse into weakness as much mental as physical. Nevertheless, he was first on the gangplank to land, and hurried feverishly ashore, in that vague desire for action and change of scene common to such irritation; yet after mixing for a few moments with the departing passengers, each selfishly hurrying to some rendezvous of rest or business, he insensibly drew apart from them, with the instinct of a vagabond and outcast. Although he was conscious that he was neither, but merely an unsuccessful miner suddenly reduced to the point of soliciting work or alms of any kind, he took advantage of the first crossing to plunge into a side street, with a vague sense of hiding his shame]]> Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:32:06 +0300 https://fiction.library.land/bret-harte/9741-sally_dows.html https://fiction.library.land/bret-harte/9741-sally_dows.html
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America has always had a fascination with the Wild West, and schoolchildren grow up learning about famous Westerners like Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hicock, as well as the infamous shootout at O.K. Corral. Pioneering and cowboys and Indians have been just as popular in Hollywood, with Westerners helping turn John Wayne and Clint Eastwood into legends on the silver screen. HBO’s Deadwood, about the historical 19th century mining town on the frontier was popular last decade.Not surprisingly, a lot has been written about the West, and one of the best known writers about the West in the 19th century was Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902), who wrote poetry and short stories during his literary career. Harte was on the West Coast by the 1860s, placing himself in perfect position to document and depict frontier life. ]]> Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:28:27 +0300 https://fiction.library.land/bret-harte/9740-colonel_starbottles_client.html https://fiction.library.land/bret-harte/9740-colonel_starbottles_client.html
Colonel Starbottle's Client by Bret Harte]]> Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:34:25 +0300 https://fiction.library.land/bret-harte/9806-a_protegee_of_jack_hamlins,_and_other_stories.html https://fiction.library.land/bret-harte/9806-a_protegee_of_jack_hamlins,_and_other_stories.html
America has always had a fascination with the Wild West, and schoolchildren grow up learning about famous Westerners like Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hicock, as well as the infamous shootout at O.K. Corral. Pioneering and cowboys and Indians have been just as popular in Hollywood, with Westerners helping turn John Wayne and Clint Eastwood into legends on the silver screen. HBO’s Deadwood, about the historical 19th century mining town on the frontier was popular last decade.Not surprisingly, a lot has been written about the West, and one of the best known writers about the West in the 19th century was Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902), who wrote poetry and short stories during his literary career. Harte was on the West Coast by the 1860s, placing himself in perfect position to document and depict frontier life. ]]> Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:38:48 +0300 https://fiction.library.land/bret-harte/9698-on_the_frontier.html https://fiction.library.land/bret-harte/9698-on_the_frontier.html
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Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, fiction, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction. As he moved from California to the eastern U.S. to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but his Gold Rush tales have been most often reprinted, adapted, and admired.]]> Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:33:24 +0300 https://fiction.library.land/bret-harte/9772-mr__jack_hamlins_mediation.html https://fiction.library.land/bret-harte/9772-mr__jack_hamlins_mediation.html
Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation by Bret Harte]]> Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:36:40 +0300