Download or read book A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country written by Thomas D. Beasey and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A desire to obtain, at first hand, any possible information in regard to reminiscences of Bret Harte, Mark Twain and others of the little coterie of writers, who in the early fifties visited the mining camps of California and through stories that have become classics, played a prominent part in making "California" a synonym for romance, led to undertaking the tramp of which this brief narrative is a record. The writer met with unexpected success, having the good fortune to meet men, all over eighty years of age, who had known—in some cases intimately Bret Harte, Mark Twain, "Dan de Quille," Prentice Mulford, Bayard Taylor and Horace Greeley. It seems imperative that a relation of individual experiences—however devoid of stirring incident and adventure—should be written in the first person. At the same time, the writer of this unpretentious story of a summer's tramp cannot but feel that he owes his readers—should he have any apologies for any avoidable egotism. His excuse is that, no twit notwithstanding ding the glamor attaching to the old mining towns, it is almost incredible how little is known of them by the average Californian; for the Eastern tourist there is more excuse, since the foot-hills of the Sierras lie outside the beaten tracks of travel. He has, therefore, assumed that "a plain unvarnished tale" of actual experiences might not be without interest to the casual reader; and possibly might incite in him a desire to see for himself a country not only possessed of rare beauty, but absolutely unique in its associations. If this brief narrative should induce anyone to "gird up his loins," shoulder his pack and essay a similar pilgrimage, the author will feel that he has not been unrewarded. And if a man over threescore years of age can tramp through seven counties and return, in spite of intense heat, feeling better and stronger than when he started, a young fellow in the hey-day of life and sound of wind and limb surely ought not to be discouraged.
Download or read book A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country Classic Reprint written by Thomas Dykes Beasley and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country Forward; Preface; Reminiscences of Bret Harte. "Plain Language From Truthful James." The Glamour of the Old Mining Towns; Inception of the Tramp. Stockton to Angel's Camp. Tuttletown and the "Saga of Jackass Hill"; Tuolumne to Placerville. Charm of Sonora and Fascination of San Andreas and Mokelumne Hill; J. H. Bradley and the Cary House. Ruins of Coloma. James W. Marshall and His Pathetic End; Auburn to Nevada City via Colfax and Grass Valley. Ben Taylor and His Home; E. W. Maslan and His Recollections of Pioneer Days in Grass Valley. Origin of Our Mining Laws; Grass Valley to Smartsville. Sucker Flat and Its Personal Appeal; Smartsville to Maryaville. Some Reflections on Automobiles and "Hoboes"; Bayard Taylor and the California of Forty-nine. Bret Harte and His Literary Pioneer Contemporaries About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country written by T. D. Beasley and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country" by T. D. Beasley. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book Drift from Two Shores 1878 by Bret Harte Original Classics written by Bret Harte and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 May 5, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, fiction, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction. As he moved from California to the eastern U.S. to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but his Gold Rush tales have been most often reprinted, adapted, and admired
Download or read book Selected Stories of Bret Harte written by Bret Harte and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected Stories of Bret Harte By Bret Harte Pioneering Life in California Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 - May 5, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. Bret Harte was born in Albany, New York, on August 25, 1836. He was named Francis Brett Hart after his great-grandfather, Francis Brett. When he was young his father, Henry, changed the spelling of the family name from Hart to Harte. Henry's father - Bret's grandfather - was Bernard Hart, an Orthodox Jewish immigrant who flourished as a merchant, becoming one of the founders of the New York Stock Exchange. Later, Francis preferred to be known by his middle name, but he spelled it with only one "t," becoming Bret Harte. An avid reader as a boy, Harte published his first work at age 11, a satirical poem titled "Autumn Musings," now lost. Rather than attracting praise, the poem resulted in his family's ridicule. As an adult, he recalled to a friend, "Such a shock was their ridicule to me that I wonder that I ever wrote another line of verse." His formal schooling ended when he was 13 in 1849. He moved to California in 1853, later working there in a number of capacities, including miner, teacher, messenger, and journalist. He spent part of his life in the northern California coastal town of Union (now Arcata), a settlement on Humboldt Bay that was established as a provisioning center for mining camps in the interior.
Download or read book The Three Partners written by Bret Harte and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Three Partners by Bret Harte The sun was going down on the Black Spur Range. The red light it had kindled there was still eating its way along the serried crest, showing through gaps in the ranks of pines, etching out the interstices of broken boughs, fading away and then flashing suddenly out again like sparks in burnt-up paper. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Download or read book Novels and Stories of Bret Harte Classic Reprint written by Bret Harte and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Novels and Stories of Bret Harte As the cold light increased, it could be seen that the vessel showed evidence of a long voyage and stress of weather. She had lost one of her spars, and her star board davits rolled emptily. Nevertheless, her rigging was taut and ship-shape, and her decks scrupulously clean. Indeed, in that uncertain light, the only moving figure besides the two motionless shadows at the wheel was engaged in scrubbing the quarter-deck which, with its grated settees and stacked camp-chairs, seemed to indicate the presence of cabin passengers. For the barque Excelsior, from New York to San Francisco, had discharged the bulk of her cargo at Callao, and had ex tended her liberal cabin accommodation to swell the feverish Californian immigration, still in its height. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Novels and Stories of Bret Harte written by Bret Harte and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Novels and Stories of Bret Harte: Cressy, And, a First Family of Tasajara As the master of the Indian Spring school emerged from the pine woods into the little clearing before the schoolhouse, he stopped whistling, put his hat less jauntily on his head, threw away some wild flowers he had gathered on his way, and otherwise assumed the severe demeanor of his profession and his mature age - which was at least twenty. Not that he usually felt this an assumption; it was a firm conviction of his serious nature that he impressed others, as he did himself, with the blended austerity and ennui of deep and exhausted experience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book From Sand Hill to Pine written by Bret Harte and published by Serenity Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large print edition, with easy-to-read text, of Harte's classic work.
Download or read book Bret Harte written by Bret Harte and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects the best-known works of Bret Harte, one of the most celebrated writers of the American West. With a focus on Harte's stories of life in California during the gold rush era, this book features classic tales like The Outcasts of Poker Flat and The Luck of Roaring Camp. With their memorable characters and vivid descriptions of frontier life, these stories capture the spirit of a bygone era and remain popular with readers today. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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