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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. In a career spanning more than four decades, he also wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book ...
Harte's poem shaped the popular American conception of the Chinese more than any other writing at the time, [12] and made him the most popular literary figure in America in 1870. [1] The poem was especially relevant to Harte's fame as his other most popular works, " The Luck of Roaring Camp " and " The Outcasts of Poker Flat ", were originally ...
"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 ...
The Golden Era, October 1865. The Golden Era was a 19th-century San Francisco newspaper.The publication featured the writing of Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Charles Warren Stoddard (writing at first as "Pip Pepperpod"), Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Adah Isaacs Menken, Ada Clare, Prentice Mulford, Dan De Quille, [1] J. S. Hittell and some women such as Frances Fuller Victor. [2]
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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 ...
Harte occasionally seems to have adopted some of the less fortunate devices of Charles Dickens, but his manner was chiefly his own. He lacks literary finish, though he was painstaking in regard to style; but in these early tales he has a sure command of humor and pathos, and a complete mastery of his unique material.