CHAPTER I.
A crusader and A sign.
It was the 4th of August, 1854, off Cape Corrientes.
Morning was breaking over a heavy sea, and the closely-reefed
topsails of a barque that ran before it beari...
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Francis Brett Harte (1837-1902), known as Bret Harte, an American poet and fiction writer who specialized in local color and regional stories, set the fashion in fiction for a number of writers in the...
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From 1869, the year the final spike was driven into the transcontinental railroad, to 1876, when George Custer died at the Little Big Horn and the United States celebrated its centennial, Bret Harte e...
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A growling California grizzly bear crossing railroad tracks was the emblem for the Overland Monthly magazine that appeared 1 July 1868 on San Francisco's newsstands. The editor, Bret Harte , had adde...
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More than any other American writer, Bret Harte discovered the "literary West," or so Henry Seidel Canby declared in the Saturday Review of Literature for 17 April 1926. As founding editor of the Over...
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Biography EssayBret Harte was the first Pacific slope writer to gain an international reputation for his work. As a deft observer of character and conditions, he introduced to a worldwide audience the...
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The Crusade of the Excelsior
Francis Brett Harte
(Francis) Bret(t) Harte