by Bret Harte
Bret Harte (1836–1902) was an American writer whose western stories and poems launched the "local color" school in American fiction.
John Bolen brings his extensive theater, film, and television experience to audiobooks. His recent television appearances include CIA: Masters of Deception on the Discovery Channel, and his recent film work includes The Land and The Inn Outside the World.
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Bret Harte is a fondly remembered western writer who spent only eighteen of his sixty-six years in the American west -- in fact, he went on, in 1878, to get work as an American consul in Germany, and as far as we can tell, never came back to the United States. He died in 1902, and was buried in the churchyard of St. Peter's Church, in Frimley, Surrey, England.
Even so, the American west was in his heart, and that was what he wrote about -- here, in Colonel Starbottle's Client, including stories like "Colonel Starbottle's Client," "The Postmistress of Laurel Run," "A Night at 'Hays,'" "Johnson's 'Old Woman,'" "The New Assistant at Pine Clearing School," "In a Pioneer Restaurant," "A Treasure of the Galleon," "Out of a Pioneer's Trunk," and "The Ghosts of Stukeley Castle." Harte was a wonderful writer; this is a volume you won't want to miss.
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