A First Family of Tasajara1891. Illustrated. Bret Harte's witty, sometimes heart-rending tales of frontier California earned him acclaim during the 1860s as the new prophet of American letters. His books, The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat and M'liss, helped establish the foundations of western American fiction. The book begins: 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, in Contra Costa. Even after it had passed a prolonged whistle came through the keyhole, sides, and openings of the closed glass front doors, that served equally for windows, and filled the canvas ceiling which hid the roof above like a bellying sail. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. |
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
CHAPTER III | 66 |
CHAPTER IV | 79 |
CHAPTER V | 119 |
CHAPTER VI | 156 |
CHAPTER VII | 184 |
CHAPTER VIII | 208 |
CHAPTER IX | 245 |
CHAPTER X | 277 |
CHAPTER XI | 299 |
CHAPTER XII | 330 |
CHAPTER XIII | 340 |
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