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Pages in category "Short stories by Bret Harte" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. L.
Bret Harte (/ h ɑːr t / HART, born Francis Brett Hart, August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902) was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he also wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book ...
"The Luck of Roaring Camp" is a short story by American author Bret Harte. It was first published in the August 1868 issue of the Overland Monthly and helped push Harte to international prominence. [1] 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 ...
The Tales of the Argonauts is a volume of short stories published by Bret Harte in 1875. The title is sometimes loosely applied to all Harte's stories of early California . Description
"The Outcasts of Poker Flat" (1869) is a short story written by author of the American West Bret Harte. [1] An example of naturalism and local color of California during the first half of the nineteenth century, the story was first published in January 1869 in the magazine Overland Monthly. It was one of two short stories which brought the ...
Colonel Starbottle is a Kentucky Colonel, a Bret Harte character from other stories. Yuba Bill is another Bret Harte stock character, a rambunctious stage driver. Jack Marbury is a third Bret Harte stock character (Jack Hamlin in other stories), a gambler. Rufe Waters is a young stockman interested in Salomy Jane who fails to show mettle. Featured
Tennessee's Partner is a short story by Bret Harte, first published in the Overland Monthly in 1869, which has been described as "one of the earliest 'buddy' stories in American fiction." [1] It was later loosely adapted into four films.
This is a partial list of published short-story authors: A–B. Sait Faik Abasıyanık (1906–1954) ... Bret Harte (1836–1902) Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)