Harte returns to the California of the forty-niners in these stories: the gambler John Oakhurst, Wan Lee the Chinese boy, Old Man Plunkett trying to go home, the Fool of Five Forks, Baby Sylvester the bear cub, and an episode in Fiddletown, with Colonel Starbottle on hand.
Classic Western stories, humorous and sentimental by turns, from the writer who first put the gold camps into literature. Download the free EPUB.