The Best Short Stories of Bret Harte - Edited by Robert N. Linscott - 1947 Modern Library Hardback

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Edited, with an Introduction, by ROBERT N. LINSCOTT

This collection includes twenty-five of the best stories of Bret Harte, outstand ing chronicler of the turbulent Western frontier. Here are the golden days of early California; the life of the mining camp, barroom and gambling hall, depicted with fresh and vivid color; here are Jack Hamlin, John Oakhurst, Colonel Starbottle and Salomy Jane; Poker Flat, Sandy Bar and Red Dog; here, in short, is a cross-section of American life during its most adventurous and picturesque era, described in some of the best short stories that any American has written.