In 1868, Bret Harte published "The Luck of Roaring Camp" in the Overland Monthly, a new publication from San Francisco of which Harte himself was the first editor. Intended to be a competitor to the well-established Atlantic Monthly, the Overland Monthly was looking for "tales of California romance." By "romance," of course, Harte didn't mean "hugs and kisses." He meant stories that would epitomize the grandeur, drama, and glory of old California. "The Luck of Roaring Camp" was a not-so-fictionalized account of California's gold rush, and of the terrible 1862 flood that threatened to...
In 1868, Bret Harte published "The Luck of Roaring Camp" in the Overland Monthly, a new publication from San Francisco of which Harte himself was t...
It was a season of unequalled prosperity in Devil's Ford. The half a dozen cabins scattered along the banks of the North Fork, as if by some overflow of that capricious river, had become augmented during a week of fierce excitement by twenty or thirty others, that were huddled together on the narrow gorge of Devil's Spur, or cast up on its steep sides. So sudden and violent had been the change of fortune, that the dwellers in the older cabins had not had time to change with it, but still kept their old habits, customs, and even their old clothes. The flour pan in which their daily bread was...
It was a season of unequalled prosperity in Devil's Ford. The half a dozen cabins scattered along the banks of the North Fork, as if by some overflow ...
It was very dark, and the wind was increasing. The last gust had been preceded by an ominous roaring down the whole mountain-side, which continued for some time after the trees in the little valley had lapsed into silence. The air was filled with a faint, cool, sodden odor, as of stirred forest depths. In those intervals of silence the darkness seemed to increase in proportion and grow almost palpable. Yet out of this sightless and soundless void now came the tinkle of a spur's rowels, the dry crackling of saddle leathers, and the muffled plunge of a hoof in the thick carpet of dust and...
It was very dark, and the wind was increasing. The last gust had been preceded by an ominous roaring down the whole mountain-side, which continued for...
It was a steep trail leading over the Monterey Coast Range. Concho was very tired, Concho was very dusty, Concho was very much disgusted. To Concho's mind there was but one relief for these insurmountable difficulties, and that lay in a leathern bottle slung over the machillas of his saddle. Concho raised the bottle to his lips, took a long draught, made a wry face, and ejaculated: "Carajo!" It appeared that the bottle did not contain aguardiente, but had lately been filled in a tavern near Tres Pinos by an Irishman who sold had American whisky under that pleasing Castilian title....
It was a steep trail leading over the Monterey Coast Range. Concho was very tired, Concho was very dusty, Concho was very much disgusted. To Concho's ...
Hungering for home and safety, the boy's stumbling feet carry him into Deadman's Gulch -- just one more disastrous move after all the rest!
Young Clarence and his friend Susie find for themselves a rough trail to follow -- separated from their California-bound wagon train and lost on the Great Plains . . . and strangely befriended by one of the most feared rough --house outlaws of the Plains, the notorious Flynn!
Misadventure and violence mix in Bret Harte's classic novel of the Westward Trail.
Hungering for home and safety, the boy's stumbling feet carry him into Deadman's Gulch -- just one more disastrous move after all the rest!
Bocetos californianos es un libro escrito por Bret Harte el cual pertenece al genero Relato, Literatura, Cuentos y relatos . Originalmente fue publicado en 1979 Junto al titulo Bocetos californianos, actualmente tenemos registrados otros 3 libros del autor Bret Harte. La vastedad de las desiertas regiones ganadas para los Estados Unidos en el Oeste obligo a sus pobladores a ejercer las mas diversas actividades. Asi BRET HARTE (1836-1902), nacido en Albany, amigo y protector de Mark Twain, fue sucesivamente maestro de escuela, empleado de farmacia, minero, mensajero, tipografo, reportero,...
Bocetos californianos es un libro escrito por Bret Harte el cual pertenece al genero Relato, Literatura, Cuentos y relatos . Originalmente fue publica...
