Writer: Bret Harte (page 3)

MARUJA by BRET HARTE MARUJA CHAPTER I Morning was breaking on the high road to San Jose. The long lines of dusty, level track were beginning to extend their vanishing point in the growing light; on either side the awakening fields of wheat and oats were stretching out and broadening to the sky. In the

This etext was prepared by Donald Lainson, charlie@idirect.com. LEGENDS AND TALES by Bret Harte CONTENTS THE LEGEND OF MONTE DEL DIABLO THE ADVENTURE OF PADRE VICENTIO THE LEGEND OF DEVIL’S POINT THE DEVIL AND THE BROKER THE OGRESS OF SILVER LAND THE RUINS OF SAN FRANCISCO A NIGHT AT WINGDAM LEGENDS AND TALES. THE LEGEND

I. It was raining and blowing at Eldridge’s Crossing. From the stately pine-trees on the hill-tops, which were dignifiedly protesting through their rigid spines upward, to the hysterical willows in the hollow, that had whipped themselves into a maudlin fury, there was a general tumult. When the wind lulled, the rain kept up the distraction,

This etext was prepared by Donald Lainson, charlie@idirect.com. IN THE CARQUINEZ WOODS by Bret Harte CHAPTER I. The sun was going down on the Carquinez Woods. The few shafts of sunlight that had pierced their pillared gloom were lost in unfathomable depths, or splintered their ineffectual lances on the enormous trunks of the redwoods. For

IN A HOLLOW OF THE HILLS Bret Bret Harte CHAPTER I. It was very dark, and the wind was increasing. The last gust had been preceded by an ominous roaring down the whole mountain-side, which continued for some time after the trees in the little valley had lapsed into silence. The air was filled with

Produced by Keith M. Eckrich and the The Online Distributed Proofreaders Team BRET HARTE’S WRITINGS FRONTIER STORIES CONTENTS: FLIP: A CALIFORNIA ROMANCE FOUND AT BLAZING STAR IN THE CARQUINEZ WOODS AT THE MISSION OF SAN CARMEL A BLUE-GRASS PENELOPE LEFT OUT ON LONE STAR MOUNTAIN A SHIP OF ’49 FLIP: A CALIFORNIA ROMANCE. CHAPTER I.

This etext was prepared by Donald Lainson, charlie@idirect.com. FROM SAND HILL TO PINE by Bret Harte CONTENTS FROM SAND HILL TO PINE A NIECE OF SNAPSHOT HARRY’S A TREASURE OF THE REDWOODS A BELLE OF CANADA CITY WHAT HAPPENED AT THE FONDA A JACK AND JILL OF THE SIERRAS MR. BILSON’S HOUSEKEEPER FROM SAND HILL

This etext was prepared by Donald Lainson, charlie@idirect.com. FOUND AT BLAZING STAR by Bret Harte The rain had only ceased with the gray streaks of morning at Blazing Star, and the settlement awoke to a moral sense of cleanliness, and the finding of forgotten knives, tin cups, and smaller camp utensils, where the heavy showers

This etext was prepared by Donald Lainson, charlie@idirect.com. FLIP: A CALIFORNIA ROMANCE by Bret Harte CHAPTER I Just where the track of the Los Gatos road streams on and upward like the sinuous trail of a fiery rocket until it is extinguished in the blue shadows of the Coast Range, there is an embayed terrace

Produced by Curtis A. Weyant and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team EAST AND WEST Poems. by Bret Harte. Contents. I. A Greyport Legend A Newport Romance The Hawk’s Nest In the Mission Garden The Old Major Explains “Seventy-Nine” Truthful James’s Answer to “Her Letter” Further Language from Truthful James The Wonderful Spring of San Joaquin

DRIFT FROM TWO SHORES by BRET HARTE CONTENTS DRIFT FROM TWO SHORES THE MAN ON THE BEACH TWO SAINTS OF THE FOOT-HILLS “JINNY” ROGER CATRON’S FRIEND “WHO WAS MY QUIET FRIEND?” A GHOST OF THE SIERRAS THE HOODLUM BAND THE MAN WHOSE YOKE WAS NOT EASY MY FRIEND, THE TRAMP THE MAN FROM SOLANO THE

Produced by David Garcia and PG Distributed Proofreaders DICKENS IN CAMP _BY BRET HARTE_ WITH A FOREWORD BY _Frederick S. Myrtle_ _San Francisco_ JOHN HOWELL 1922. FOREWORD * * * * * “Dickens In Camp” is held by many admirers of Bret Harte to be his masterpiece of verse. The poem is so held for