A humorous poem about a short lived society of men who favored brawls over polite discussion. The Stanislaus River flows from the Sierras down to the Central Valley of California where it joins the San Joaquin River. The city of Modesto is in Stanislaus County.
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This short story by Bret Harte tells of an overheard conversation in a Pullman sleeping-car about the rise and fall of an undertaker. This story was abridged.
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In the mining town of Smith's Pocket Mliss (Melissa) has grown up without a mother and with a drunk for a father. She shows up at the school house and announces she wants an education. Between Mliss and the school master it is a question of who is teaching whom. This story so captivated the young Rudyard Kipling that when he left India to go to London he came by way of San Francisco. In his visit to the gold country he fancied he saw young girls who were the image of Mliss. The text for this...
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LibriVox recording of Cuentos del Oeste by Bret Harte. (Translated by Ramón Volart; Juan Garcia Rodriguez.) Read in Spanish by Victor Villarraza Bret Harte ha sido llamado con razón «el Dickens de los pioneros»: ilustrando con humor y sentimiento el coraje y la virtud de los primeros colonos, dio a conocer el salvaje Oeste a los lectores «civilizados» de la Costa Este, para quienes en aquel tiempo California era pura leyenda, e implantó una serie de arquetipos perdurables de una región...
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The only woman in a California mining camp dies giving birth. As any of the men could have been the father, they do the right thing and become the babies collective parent. There really was a place called Roaring Camp but it wasn't a mining camp it was a logging camp. Fremont and his men spent time there. It's near the present day town of Felton known for its steam railroad ride. It's reached along the route from Scotts Valley to Santa Cruz. Harte apparently liked the name and used it. The text...
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Jeff Briggs is the proprietor of a wayside inn, the Half-way House. One night during a violent storm stagecoach driver Yuba Bill and a male passenger come in. The man's wife and daughter are still in the coach which is some distance away. Yuba Bill fetches the wife and Jeff brings in the daughter. He thinks he is carrying a child and soothes her accordingly. Once inside he finds the daughter to be Jessie, a beautiful young woman. They are instantly smitten although neither will admit it. Aside...
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The mining community of Poker Flat decides to expel 6 people. Two of them make it as far as the nearest tree. The remaining four are Oakhurst the gambler, Uncle Billy, town drunk and suspected sluice robber, and two professional women.They head out for the nearest settlement over the Sierras and are trapped by an early snow. The text for this story may be found at www.gutenberg.org. Search authors for Harte, Bret.
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Trapped in a snowbound mountain cabin, an assortment of travelers receives the unwelcome visit of a wanted outlaw. Starring Cameron Mitchell, Dale Robertson, Anne Baxter Based on the story by Bret Harte. IMDB
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The Illustrated London News Summer Number [1886-06-21]. The Illustrated London News was the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine but it also published a fair amount of fiction, especially during the Victorian era. This special summer issue contains the complete novel Cynic Fortune: A Tale Of A Man With A Conscience by David Christie Murray. It was illustrated by R. Caton Woodville. The novel was published in book form by Chatto & Windus in the same year. In the story, a man...
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News coverage to start the day.
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Description : Map surveying the resubdivision of Lots 6, 7, and 16 of Sierra Oaks Vista # 2. The subdivision is bounded by Fair Oaks Boulevard and divided by Bret Harte Road. Accession Number : 1983/079/341 Collection: Sacramento County (Calif.) Clerk Recorder records Additional Title : Survey Map Book 3, Page 142 Publisher : Root, C.A. (County Recorder) Date Published : 1940-02-17 Dimensions : 26.5 x 18 in
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Founded by Bret Harte
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The Golden Argosy [v6 #23, #283, May 5, 1888] (Frank A. Munsey, Publisher, 5¢, 16pp, 11" x 14½") 353 · The Prairie Horses · Henry M. Hamilton · ss 354 · Spring Within · John Hughes · pm 354 · Mr. Halgrove’s Ward; Or, Living It Down [Part 14 of 15] · Talbot Baines Reed · sl 355 · Correspondence · [The Readers] · lc 356 · Base Ball: The Pitcher · W. D. Moffat · ar 357 · The Noblest Monument · James Shirley · pm (r) 357 · The Casket Of Diamonds; Or, Hope...
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