Bret Harte
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When I state that I was own brother to Lord Burleydon, had an income of two thousand a year, could speak all the polite languages fluently, was a powerful swordsman, a good shot, and could ride anything from an elephant to a clotheshorse, I really think I have said enough to satisfy any feminine novel-reader of Bayswater or South Kensington that I was a hero. My brother's wife, however, did not seem to incline to this belief.
22) On The Frontier
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Harte-who once rode shotgun on a stagecoach-knew the prospectors, gamblers, and gold-hearted frontier gals who won the West personally. Here are three novellas about the American West by one of the country's first literary superstars: "At the Mission of San Carmel," "A Blue Grass Penelope," and "Left Out on Lone Star Mountain."
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Harte-who once rode shotgun on a stagecoach-knew the prospectors, gamblers, and gold-hearted frontier gals who won the West. The collection of treasures, published in 1896 includes "A Blue Grass Penelope," "Left Out on Lone Star Mountain," "A Ship of '49," "An Apostle of the Tules," "Devil's Ford," and "A Secret of Telegraph Hill."
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The heroine of A Waif of the Plains returns in this 1893 novel. "Has his flowing serapes and his flying horsehair lariats...The man who first opened ground in an unknown realm of fiction likes to delineate what is 'pure cussedness,' and Susy is a mean girl."-The New York Times.
26) Maruja
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Bret Harte blazed new trails in fiction with his witty, heart-rending stories of California and the frontier. These yarns collected in 1896 include "Snow-Bound at Eagle's," "A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready," "A Drift from Redwood Camp," "Captain Jim's Friend," "The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh," and "A Knight-Errant of the Foothills."
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Just where the track of the Los Gatos road streams on and upward like the sinuous trail of a fiery rocket until it is extinguished in the blue shadows of the Coast Range, there is an embayed terrace near the summit, hedged by dwarf firs. At every bend of the heat-laden road the eye rested upon it wistfully; all along the flank of the mountain, which seemed to pant and quiver in the oven-like air, through rising dust, the slow creaking of dragging...
30) Urban Sketches
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Urban Sketches by Bret Harte
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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...
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Society has forgiven Jo Corbin for killing a man, but can he forgive himself? Will the postmistress lose all in a bid to help a friend escape justice? Will the new teaching assistant's unorthodox ways tame the unruly pioneer children? These are just three of the nine wonderful short stories from Bret Harte, set in wild and woolly nineteenth-century California.Bret Harte's witty, sometimes heart-rending tales of frontier California earned him acclaim...
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In 1870, the young San Francisco-based writer and editor Bret Harte (1836-1902) first compiled a single-volume edition of his rousing stories of life in the Wild West. Entitled The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches, the book propelled him almost overnight from local celebrity to American literary lion. Four of the most famous of those tales are included in this collection: the title story, "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," "Tennessee's Partner,"...
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If you can't get enough of action-adventure stories of pioneer life in the American West, dive into this tale from Bret Harte, one of the most renowned documenters of the era. In A Waif of the Plains, Harte recounts the story of an orphan traveling the Oregon Trail in the 1850s. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction, Sheba Blake Publishing Corp. is extremely dedicated to bringing to the forefront the amazing...
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The story takes place in a small struggling mining town located in the foothills of the California mountains at the time of the gold rush. The camp is suffering from a long string of bad luck. With only one woman in their midst, it seems as though the miners have no future. However, the tide turns when a small boy is born. Thomas Luck is the first newborn the camp has seen in ages; things are looking up. The miners become cheerful, foliage begins...
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The story takes place in a Californian community known as Poker Flat, near the town of La Porte. Poker Flat is, in the opinions of many, on a downward slope. The town has lost thousands of dollars, and has experienced a moral decline. In an effort to save what is left of the town and reestablish it as a "virtuous" place, a secret society is created to decide whom to exile and whom to kill.
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The New York Times said Bret Harte "was the creator of a new literature that was purely American." He wrote many stories about California, specifically about the gold-rush days. A riveting tale, Three Partners chronicles the lives of three accomplices who strike gold and the profound effect their lucky strike has on their lives.
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This collection contains the most popular stories of Bret Harte, such as "The Luck of Roaring Camp," "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," "M'liss," and "An Ingénue of the Sierras." The title story of this book was almost not published because it contained a prostitute character and some profanity, however Harte was adamant in its publication, and as a result, he played a significant part in further realism in American literature.
39) Salomy Jane
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When beautiful Salomy Jane resists the romantic advances of a young ruffian, she is rescued by Jack Dart, who has his own additional reasons for tangling with the man.
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