The title story unfolds on a quiet promontory in the North Fork of the Stanislaus, far from the mining sluices, and the other tales range across Harte’s California, from Johnnyboy and the Sheriff of Siskyou to a Scottish romance in A Rose of Glenbogie. Prospectors, officers and outsiders meet chance, pride and sudden violence.
Late Harte stories with all his feeling for the Sierra and its people. Download the free EPUB.