Bret Harte

A collection of timeless Westerns from some of the most well-known authors of the genre....

This Raging Bull Publishing Box Set contains three classic Western books....

Contents: - Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Edgar Allan Poe. The Gold Bug - Herman Melville. Bartleby, the Scrivener - Bret Harte ...

A great new collection of classic short fiction, brilliantly read by a selection of narrators....

Echoes of the Frontier gathers thirteen unforgettable tales by literary giants such as Jack London, Willa Cather, Mark Twain, and Bret Harte—each story capturing a different facet of life at the edge of civilization.

Bret Harte was an American short-story writer and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush....

Loss in any form seems to burden us with more weight than anything that can possibly be gained or learnt from. The loss of a person, a loved one, is often overwhelming. It is a subject that authors return to again and again....

Art and life. Each the mirror of the other. This then is the classic definition of what ‘Realism’ as a writing form really is. Some might call it a fancy term for the mundane day to day pursuits but in the hands of an author it comes alive....

A Chinese boy, an Indian and a wolf-like dog are outcasts, true friends and marvelous pranksters - in a town that's running out of patience....

The story of the siblings Maggie and Jim Culpepper who live in Dedlow Marsh. Close to their home is a fort with government soldiers, and one night, a deserter approaches Maggie asking for supplies....

The Man of No Account is the story of a man from the East Coast whose failed California experiment gave him the title. He is returning home aboard a passenger steamer and is often the butt of jokes among the other passengers. Ultimately, the ship is lost at sea....

Bret Harte (1836-1902) was an American writer and poet, most famous for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush....

This short story by the great writer of Westerns is about a woman at home with her sick baby desperately waiting for her husband to return during a flood. The anxiety and tension builds as the mother feels increasingly isolated and afraid as the water levels rise....

"A Convert of the Mission" is about a California minister in need of rehabilitation to regain the health of his body and spirit. He follows the orders of his doctor to go somewhere and change his habits and way of life....

From a master storyteller of the Wild West comes Chu Chu, a story about a horse with a fascinating personality who refuses to be tamed....

Daddy Downey and Mammy Downey were reputed to be already living at Rough-and-Ready when the first settlers arrived; they were considered saints and word of their great age and piety had spread far beyond the foothills, into The Union Ditch newspaper and beyond....

Although American author Bret Harte is most readily associated with stories about the West, it is his skill with characterization that distinguishes him from the hundreds of others. This charming collection of Harte's short stories focuses on life in old California....

When a Cherokee Sal dies giving birth to her son in a prospecting camp, the gold miners adopt him as their own. They name him Thomas Luck, as he seems to indicate a change in fortune for the camp....

Originally published in Harte's 1875 short-story collection The Tales of the Argonauts, "How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar" is set in California in the early 1860s....

This Raging Bull Publishing set contains four classic Western books by Bret Harte....