A MILLIONAIRE OF ROUGH-AND-READY by BRET HARTE PROLOGUE There was no mistake this time: he had struck gold at last! It had lain there before him a moment ago–a misshapen piece of brown-stained quartz, interspersed with dull yellow metal; yielding enough to have allowed the points of his pick to penetrate its honeycombed recesses, yet
A First Family of Tasajara by Bret Harte
This etext was prepared by Donald Lainson, charlie@idirect.com. A FIRST FAMILY OF TASAJARA by Bret Harte CHAPTER I. “It blows,” said Joe Wingate. As if to accent the words of the speaker a heavy gust of wind at that moment shook the long light wooden structure which served as the general store of Sidon settlement,