Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902) wrote “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” and many other stories and poems about the Gold Rush. His writings gave the world a new outlook on the American West. He worked as miner, teacher, messenger, newspaper reporter and editor, as well as secretary of the San Francisco Mint, and was appointed U. S. consul in Germany and Scotland.
Snow-bound at Eagle's (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
by Bret Harte
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9781411442412
- Publisher: Barnes & Noble
- Publication date: 03/08/2011
- Series: Barnes & Noble Digital Library
- Sold by: Barnes & Noble
- Format: eBook
- Pages: 220
- File size: 176 KB
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Harte’s protagonist, John Hale, is relieved of his cash by highway robbers while riding in a stagecoach. Hale decides to get together a group of men to catch the thieves, but as the story moves along, many of his co-conspirators seem to have their own, more malevolent, motives.
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