Tales of Trail and Town - Softcover

Harte, Bret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1515094979 ISBN 13: 9781515094975

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

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, there was the usual influx of gamblers and saloon-keepers; but that was accepted as a matter of course. But it was thought hard that, after a church was built and a new school erected, it should suddenly be found necessary to have doors that locked, instead of standing shamelessly open to the criticism and temptation of wayfarers, or that portable property could no longer be left out at night in the old fond reliance on universal brotherhood.

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About the Author:

Bret Harte loved the West and its people. Harte was not born in the West, but at Albany, New York, on August 25, 1839. His father was a professor of Greek at Albany College, and died during the boyhood of his son. Bret Harte, after a common school education, went with his mother to California at the age of seventeen. There he became a jack of all trades, but, contrary to the old saying, he became master of one - short story writing. At various times he was a teacher, miner, printer, express messenger, secretary of the San Francisco Mint, and editor.

It was as a short story writer, however, that Bret Harte did his best work. His "Tales of California" introduced a fresh, vigorous, new note into fiction. Among the tales that made him famous were "The Luck of Roaring Camp," "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," and "How Santa Claus Came to Simpson’s Bar." People saw that there had arrived one who could tell vividly of this new land of miners, gamblers, and picturesque landscapes, and one who combined humor, pathos, and power in his writing.

Bret Harte wrote a great deal. Forty-four volumes were published by him between 1867 and 1898. He was professor in the University of California for one year. He moved to New York in 1871 and lived there until 1878. During the next two years he was United States Consul at Crefeld, Germany, and from 1880 to 1885 Consul at Glasgow. Thereafter he lived in London, engaged in literary work. Bret Harte died at Camberley, England, on May 5, 1902.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1515094979
• ISBN 13: 9781515094975
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100