Harte returns to the gold country in these stories: a barefoot boy who becomes a mountain messenger, Colonel Starbottle pleading for a plaintiff, the landlord of the Big Flume Hotel, a Buckeye Hollow inheritance, an Ali Baba of the Sierras and Miss Peggy’s protégés. Humour and sentiment mingle on the dusty ridges.
Late, polished stories from the writer who first made the California mining camp a literary place. Download the free EPUB.