Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales

With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN:
  9781776673124
• Edition: 0

This comprehensive collection offers readers an introduction to Bret Harte's early literary career. With stories like "e;The Luck of Roaring Camp, "e; Harte created a sensation in American letters, introducing the cultural elite of the Northeast to the rough-hewn manners and speech of the nineteenth-century West.

Table of contents

• Title
• Contents
• Publishers' Note
• General Introduction
• THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP AND OTHER TALES
• The Luck of Roaring Camp
• The Outcasts of Poker Flat
• Miggles
• Tennessee's Partner
• The Idyl of Bed Gulch
• Brown of Calaveras
• CONDENSED NOVELS
• Muck-a-Muck
• Selina Sedilia
• The Ninety-Nine Guardsmen
• Miss Mix
• Mr. Midshipman Beeezy
• Guy Heavystone; or, "Entire"
• John Jenkins
• Fantine
• "La Femme"
• The Dweller of the Threshold
• N N.
• No Title
• Handsome is as Handsome Does
• Lothaw
• The Haunted Man
• Terence Denville
• Mary McGillup
• The Hoodlum Band
• EARLIER SKETCHES
• M'liss
• High-Water Mark
• A Lonely Ride
• The Man of No Account
• Notes by Flood and Field
• Waiting for the Ship
• A Night at Wingdam
• SPANISH AND AMERICAN LEGENDS
• The Legend of Monte del Diablo
• The Right Eye of the Commander
• The Legend of Devil's Point
• The Adventure of Padre Vicentio
• The Devil and the Broker
• The Ogress of Silver Land
• The Christmas Gift that Came to Rupert
• Endnotes