Regional Fiction.

After the Civil War local-color fiction gained widespread popularity in America. Bret Harte (1836-1902) acquainted the country with the western miner in stories such as "The Luck of Roaring Camp" (1868) and "The Outcasts of Poker Flats" (1869), while in the late 1870s the Atlanta Constitution began publishing the dialect stories of plantation life in the Deep South that Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) later collected as Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings (1880). George Washington Cable (1844-1925) wrote of Creoles and the bayou country near New Orleans in popular magazine stories, later collected in Old Creole Days (1879). Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) wrote Oldtown Folks (1869), a representative portrayal of life in New England. Later New England also figured prominently in the stories of Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930). Localcolor writers depicted nearly every region of America, lending...