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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.
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]
The same day the same party was reported to have killed 58 more people at South Beach, about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Eureka, even though many of the women worked for the white families and many could speak "good English". [1]
"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 ...
Bret Harte, 1868. The Overland Monthly was founded in 1868 [1] [2] by Anton Roman, a Bavarian-born bookseller who moved to California during the Gold Rush.He had recently published the poems of Charles Warren Stoddard and a collection of verse by California writers called Outcroppings. [3]
Harte nevertheless attended the play's opening at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C., on May 7, 1877. [10] Near the end of his life, Harte used the characters of both Truthful James and Ah Sin in his poem "Free Silver at Angel's", a satirical response to the silver plank in the 1896 Democratic National Convention platform. [11]
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 ...
"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 ...