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Bret Harte

Legends and TalesBret Harte Legends and Tales THE LEGEND OF MONTE DEL DIABLO The cautious reader will detect a lack of authenticity in the following pages. I am not a cautious reader myself, yet I confess with some concern to the absence of much documentary evidence in support of the singular inc...

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Selected Stories of Bret HarteBret Harte Selected Stories of Bret Harte INTRODUCTION The life of Bret Harte divides itself, without adventitious forcing, into four quite distinct parts. First, we have the precocious boyhood, with its eager response to the intellectual stimulation of cultured pare...

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Urban SketchesBret Harte Urban Sketches A VENERABLE IMPOSTOR As I glance across my table, I am somewhat distracted by the spectacle of a venerable head whose crown occasionally appears beyond, at about its level. The apparition of a very small hand—whose fingers are bunchy and have the appearance...

Salomy JaneBret Harte Salomy Jane I A Kiss and an Escape Only one shot had been fired. It had gone wide of its mark,—the ringleader of the Vigilantes,—and had left Red Pete, who had fired it, covered by their rifles and at their mercy. For his hand had been cramped by hard riding, and his eye dis...

Snow-Bound at Eagle'sBret Harte Snow-Bound at Eagle's CHAPTER I For some moments profound silence and darkness had accompanied a Sierran stage-coach towards the summit. The huge, dim bulk of the vehicle, swaying noiselessly on its straps, glided onward and upward as if obeying some mysterious imp...

Trent's Trust, and Other StoriesBret Harte Trent's Trust, and Other Stories TRENT’S TRUST I 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...

Tales of Trail and TownBret Harte Tales of Trail and Town THE ANCESTORS OF PETER ATHERLY CHAPTER I It must be admitted that the civilizing processes of Rough and Ready were not marked by any of the ameliorating conditions of other improved camps. After the discovery of the famous “Eureka” lead, t...

MarujaBret Harte Maruja CHAPTER I Morning was breaking on the high road to San Jose. The long lines of dusty, level track were beginning to extend their vanishing point in the growing light; on either side the awakening fields of wheat and oats were stretching out and broadening to the sky. In th...