By Shore and Sedge

Harte, Bret

• Publisher: pubOne.info
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN: 9782819938187
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

pubOne.info present you this new edition. On October 10, 1856, about four hundred people were camped in Tasajara Valley, California. It could not have been for the prospect, since a more barren, dreary, monotonous, and uninviting landscape never stretched before human eye; it could not have been for convenience or contiguity, as the nearest settlement was thirty miles away; it could not have been for health or salubrity, as the breath of the ague-haunted tules in the outlying Stockton marshes swept through the valley; it could not have been for space or comfort, for, encamped on an unlimited plain, men and women were huddled together as closely as in an urban tenement-house, without the freedom or decency of rural isolation; it could not have been for pleasant companionship, as dejection, mental anxiety, tears, and lamentation were the dominant expression; it was not a hurried flight from present or impending calamity, for the camp had been deliberately planned, and for a week pioneer wagons had been slowly arriving; it was not an irrevocable exodus, for some had already returned to their homes that others might take their places

Table of contents

• BY SHORE AND SEDGE
• II
• III
• IV
• SARAH WALKER
• A SHIP OF '49
• II
• III
• IV
• V
• VI
• VII
• VIII
• IX
• Copyright