Author:Francis Bret Harte

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Francis Bret Harte
(1836–1902)

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American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California.
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Works

Novels

• Gabriel Conroy (1876) Project Gutenberg
• Clarence (1895) Project Gutenberg IA

Short stories

Short story collections

• Condensed Novels (1867) 1880 edition: IA
• The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches (1870)
• Tales of the Argonauts, and Other Sketches (1875), 1876 ed: IA
• By Shore and Sedge (1885) IA
• The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh, and Other Tales, 2 vols. (1889) IA 1, IA 2
• Colonel Starbottle's Client (1892)
• Sally Dows, etc. (1893) short stories IA
• The Bell-Ringer of Angel's, and Other Stories (1894) IA
• Barker's Luck and Other Stories (1896) (transcription project)
• Stories in Light and Shadow (1896)
• Openings in the Old Trail (1902)
• Condensed Novels: Second Series New Burlesques (1902)
• Trent's Trust and Other Stories (1903)

Individual short stories

• An Ali Baba of the Sierras
• "Baby Sylvester" (1873-74, St. Nicholas)
• Barker's Luck
• The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion (1899, Windsor)
• Brown of Calaveras
• A Buckeye Hollow Inheritance
• Bulger's Reputation
• Captain Jim's Friend
• Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff
• The Convalescence of Jack Hamlin
• A Convert of the Mission
• The Devotion of Enriquez, (1895 Nov, Century)
• Dick Boyle's Business Card
• Dick Spindler's Family Christmas (1898, Windsor)
• A Drift from Redwood Camp," (1887, Century)
• An Episode of Fiddletown
• "Golly and the Christian, or, The Minx and the Manxman" (1901, Cosmopolitan) (ss)
• "The Heir of the McHulishes," (1893 Sept, Oct, Century)
• The Goddess of Excelsior
• The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh
• High Water Mark
• The Idyl of Red Gulch
• "An Ingenue of the Sierras,"
• In the Tules, "In the Tules" in The Strand Magazine, 10 (60) (1895)
• The Indiscretion of Elsbeth
• A Knight-Errant of the Foothills
• The Landlord of the Big Flume Hotel
• Lanty Foster's Mistake
• "Out of a Pioneer's Trunk," (1894, The Idler) and "Out of a Pioneer's Trunk" in The Strand Magazine, 1 (6) (1891).
• A Lonely Ride
• The Luck of Roaring Camp
• The Man of No Account
• "A Mercury of the Foot-Hills" (1901, Cosmopolitan)
• A Mercury of the Foothills (1902)
• Miggles
• Mr. Macglowrie's Widow
• Miss Peggy's Proteges
• Mliss
• A Mother of Five
• Notes by Flood and Field
• The Outcasts of Poker Flat
• The Reincarnation of Smith
• Prosper's "Old Mother"
• A Pupil of Chestnut Ridge
• The Reformation of James Reddy, (1893, Scribner's)
• The Right Eye of the Commander
• "Roger Catron's Friend" (Short Stories vol 10)
• "The Secret of Sobriente's Well" (1899, Windsor)
• A Secret of Telegraph Hill
• "A Ship of '49" (1885, 3-part novelette, English illustrated)
• The Sheriff of Siskyou
• "The Strange Experience of Alkali_Dick" (1897, Strand) (ss)
• Tennessee's Partner
• Trent's Trust
• Two Saints of the Foot-hills, (1878, Scribner's)
• "Under the Eaves" (1899, Windsor)
• A Ward of Colonel Starbottle
• What the Engines Said
• "When the Waters Were Up at "Jules'"" (1898, Windsor vol 8)
• A Yellow Dog
• "Young Robin Gray" (1894, Short Stories) (also in The Bell-Ringer of Angel's 1894).

Poems

Poetry collections

• The Lost Galleon and Other Tales (1867)

Individual poems

• "After the Accident," (1873, Scribner's)
• "The Heathen Chinee"
• "The Legend of Glen Head," (1873, Scribner's)
• "Lines to a Portrait, by a Superior Person," (1897, Century)
• "Her Last Letter," (1898, Century)
• Her Letter
• "Portala's Cross", August 1869
• "Plain Language from Truthful James" (1870)
• "What the Chimney Sang"
• "Mission Bells" in Sunset, 1913

Works about Harte

• "Harte, Bret," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Harte, Francis Bret," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Harte, Francis Bret," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Harte, Francis Bret," by George Edwin Rines in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)

On his works

• “Bret Harte” in Varied Types by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1908)
• "Tales of the Argonauts, The," by William B. Cairns in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)