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Bret Harte (1836-1902)

 

Selected Bibliography on Bret Harte Brief Biography at the San Francisco History Page "California Literature" by Arthur Inkersley, Museum of San Francisco  "Francis Bret Harte" by Warren Cheney, Overland Monthly, January 1883 "Bret Harte, Mark Twain, and the California Circle" from A Literary History of the American West A Tramp through the Bret Harte Country (1914) by Thomas Dykes Beasley. This travel book includes conversations with settlers who knew Harte and Mark Twain.   Image courtesy of the Museum of  the City of  San Francisco

Works Available Online At the Online Books Project (University of Pennsylvania) Condensed Novels Condensed Novels Second Series: New Burlesques Devil's Ford_ The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh, and Other Tales In the Carquinez Woods A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready _Snow-Bound at Eagle's A Waif of the Plains Mr. Jack Hamlin's Meditation and Other Stories Openings in the Old Trail Tales of Trail and Town The Three Partners Two Men of Sandy Bar Under the Redwoods Tales of the Argonauts, and Other Sketches Poems and Stories Selected for Schools and Colleges (1912) at the Making of America Project Comments to D. Campbell.

Selected Poems by Bret Harte (from the California Poetry Journal) "The Mission Bells of Monterey" "The Old Camp-Fire" "Crotalus " Rattle Snake Bar, Sierras "The Mountain Heart's--Ease" "San Francisco" "Grizzly" "Madrono" "Coyote" "To A Sea Bird"