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1) Maruja
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Maruja" by Bret Harte. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "In the Carquinez Woods" by Bret Harte. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Harte-who once rode shotgun on a stagecoach-knew the prospectors, gamblers, and gold-hearted frontier gals who won the West personally. Here are three novellas about the American West by one of the country's first literary superstars: "At the Mission of San Carmel," "A Blue Grass Penelope," and "Left Out on Lone Star Mountain."
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Project Gutenberg
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This classic western novel begins on a dark night in the west. Three pioneers on horseback are on the trail to riches-the rush for gold and silver in the California mountains. Brett Harte's cowboy prose relates the story of this group of rough silver-seekers as they try to find the legendary treasure.
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Project Gutenberg
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"The bell of the North Liberty Second Presbyterian Church had just ceased ringing. North Liberty, Connecticut, never on any day a cheerful town, was always bleaker and more cheerless," this 1888 tale of intrigue begins about a small town full of pious church-goers.
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Project Gutenberg
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's, and Other Stories" by Bret Harte. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world...
7) Sally Dows
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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"Sally Dows," a novella set in Georgia during the Reconstruction, was compared to "Mr. Henry James's analytical studies of conduct" in a contemporary review in the New York Times. In addition to the title work, this 1893 collection includes "The Conspiracy of Mrs. Bunker," "The Transformation of Buckeye Camp," and "Their Uncle from California."
8) Devil's Ford
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Project Gutenberg
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Two young women, the daughters of an engineer who has secretly squandered the family finances in ill-advised mining schemes in Devil's Ford, find themselves romanced by two stockholders, who seek to keep the women ignorant of their father's failure...and end up nearly destroying themselves in the process.
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Drift from Two Shores" by Bret Harte. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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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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Project Gutenberg
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Of Bret Harte's literary style, the London Spectator wrote, "No living writer has struck so powerful and original a note as he sounded throughout the tales which made his reputation." Harte was acclaimed for his gripping tales of life in the rough, lawless, early California mining camps-exemplified in the riveting The Story of a Mine.
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It was high hot noon on the Casket Ridge. Its very scant shade was restricted to a few dwarf Scotch firs, and was so perpendicularly cast that Leonidas Boone, seeking shelter from the heat, was obliged to draw himself up under one of them, as if it were an umbrella. Occasionally, with a boy's perversity, he permitted one bared foot to protrude beyond the sharply marked shadow until the burning sun forced him to draw it in again with a thrill of satisfaction....
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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 heavy enough to drop from the point of his pick as he endeavored to lift it from the red earth.
14) Clarence
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Project Gutenberg
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As Clarence Brant, President of the Robles Land Company, and husband of the rich widow of John Peyton, of the Robles Ranche, mingled with the outgoing audience of the Cosmopolitan Theatre, at San Francisco, he elicited the usual smiling nods and recognition due to his good looks and good fortune. But as he hurriedly slipped through the still lingering winter's rain into the smart coupe that was awaiting him, and gave the order Home, the word struck...
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In San Francisco the rainy season had been making itself a reality to the wondering Eastern immigrant. There were short days of drifting clouds and flying sunshine, and long succeeding nights of incessant downpour, when the rain rattled on the thin shingles or drummed on the resounding zinc of pioneer roofs. The shifting sand-dunes on the outskirts were beaten motionless and sodden by the onslaught of consecutive storms; the southeast trades brought...
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Project Gutenberg
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Susy, a Story of the Plains" by Bret Harte. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Project Gutenberg
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Society has forgiven Jo Corbin for killing a man, but can he forgive himself? Will the Postmistress lose all in a bid to help a friend escape justice? Will the new teaching assistant's unorthodox ways tame the unruly pioneer children?
These are just three of the nine wonderful short stories from Bret Harte, set in wild and wooly 19th century California
18) Urban Sketches
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Urban Sketches" by Bret Harte. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Condensed Novels: New Burlesques" by Bret Harte. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Project Gutenberg
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The sun was going down on the Black Spur Range. The red light it had kindled there was still eating its way along the serried crest, showing through gaps in the ranks of pines, etching out the interstices of broken boughs, fading away and then flashing suddenly out again like sparks in burnt-up paper. Then the night wind swept down the whole mountain side, and began its usual struggle with the shadows upclimbing from the valley, only to lose itself...
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