Define Bret Harte. Bret Harte synonyms, Bret Harte pronunciation, Bret Harte translation, English dictionary definition of Bret Harte. Noun 1. Bret Harte - United States writer noted for his stories about life during the California gold rush Harte Based
Bret Harte Elementary in Cherry Hill, New Jersey A community called The Shores of Poker Flat, California claims to have been the location of Poker Flat, although it is usually accepted that the story takes place further north. Bret Harte Road in Frimley (the town in which Harte was buried...
Bret Harte was an American writer who helped create the local-colour school in American fiction. Harte’s family settled in New York City and Brooklyn in 1845. His education was spotty and irregular, but he inherited a love of books and managed to get so
The Luck of Roaring Camp, short story by Bret Harte, published in 1868 in the Overland Monthly, which Harte edited. “The Luck” is a baby boy born to Cherokee Sal, a fallen woman who dies in childbirth at Roaring Camp, a California gold rush settlement. The men of the camp decide to...
His story, "The Luck of Roaring Camp," appeared in the magazine's second edition, propelling Harte to nationwide fame... Determined to pursue his literary career, in 1871 he and his family traveled back East, to New York and eventually to Boston, where he contracted with the publisher of...
"Bret Harte and I were intimate friends many years ago in San Francisco. He was the private secretary to the Superintendent of the Mint, and I was in on the third story over his head as a reporter for the Morning Call. "In the first year of this acquaintance, if I remember correctly...
This etext was prepared by Donald Lainson, charlie@idirect.com. LEGENDS AND TALES by Bret Harte CONTENTS THE LEGEND OF MONTE DEL DIABLO THE ADVENTURE OF PADRE VICENTIO THE LEGEND OF DEVIL'S POINT THE DEVIL AND THE BROKER THE OGRESS OF SILVER LAND THE RUI
A WARD OF THE GOLDEN GATE by Bret Harte PROLOGUE. In San Francisco the "rainy season" had been making itself a reality to the wondering Eastern immigrant. There were short days of drifting clouds and flying sunshine, and long succeeding nights of incessa
STORIES IN LIGHT AND SHADOW by Bret Harte From: “ARGONAUT EDITION” OF THE WORKS OF BRET HARTE, VOL. 13 P. F. COLLIER & SON NEW YORK CONTENTS “UNSER KARL” UNCLE JIM AND UNCLE BILLY SEE YUP THE DESBOROUGH CONNECTIONS SALOMY JANE’S KISS THE MAN AND THE MOUNTAIN THE PASSING OF ENRIQ...
My pretty sister-in-law's interest in my affairs always made me believe that she secretly worshiped me--although it was a fact, as will be seen in the progress of this story, that most women blushed on my addressing them. I used to say it "was the reflection of my red hair on a...