Publisher Description
This is a collection of tales of the California Gold Rush era by the Western author Bret Harte. It's a mix of local color, drama, and humor.
Several film versions of The Outcasts of Poker Flat have been made, and John Payne and Ronald Reagan starred in an adaptation of Tennessee's Partner in 1955. The spaghetti Western Four of the Apocalypse is based on The Outcasts of Poker Flat and The Luck of Roaring Camp.Stories included:
The Luck of Roaring Camp
Brown of Calavaras
The Right Eye of the Commander
The Idyll of Red Gulck
Salamie Jane
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
A Passage in the Life of Mr. John Oakhurst
The Poet of Sierra Flat
Mliss
A Ghost of the Sierras
Tennessee's Partner
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About Bret Harte
Bret Harte (1836–1902) was born in Albany, New York, and was raised in New York City. He had no formal education, but he inherited a love for books. Harte wrote for the San Franciscan Golden Era paper. There he published his first condensed novels, which were brilliant parodies of the works of well-known authors, such as Dickens and Cooper. Later, he became clerk in the US branch mint. This job gave Harte time to also work for the Overland Monthly, where he published his world-famous “Luck of the Roaring Camp” and commissioned Mark Twain to write weekly articles. In 1871, Harte was hired by the Atlantic Monthly for $10,000 to write twelve stories a year, which was the highest figure paid to an American writer at the time.