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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.
Bret Harte wrote an editorial in The Northern California in Union (now Arcata, California) condemning the massacre; soon after, he had to leave the area because of threats against his life by the genocide sympathizers. [8] [9] [10] In the editorial, Harte wrote:
The film relies on a Bret Harte play penned in 1876. The film's main character is John Oakhurst, a well-known character to the readers of Bret Harte's books. Oakhurst is an honest gambler whose compassion for others both wins him friends and causes hardships. The film was released on April 3, 1916, by Universal. [2] [3]
Aariah Fox has 22 points and 15 rebounds in 62-39 win over Huntington Beach Marina to lead Bret Harte to the Division V state girls' basketball title.
"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 ...
"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 ...
Lombardo, a teacher at Bret Harte Elementary School, was pronounced dead at the scene. Her son, Kyle Lombardo, 25, was arrested and booked on suspicion of murder based on evidence at the home that ...
North Long Beach (also referred to as North Town or Northside) is a predominantly working-class area of Long Beach, California.The neighborhood is bounded to the west, north and east by the Long Beach city limits (the Rancho Dominguez unincorporated county area and the cities of Compton, Paramount, Bellflower and Lakewood), and to the south by a Union Pacific railroad track and the Bixby ...