The title novella begins with the last gun of a Civil War battle and moves to Georgia during Reconstruction, where a Northern officer turned businessman meets the charming, sharp-witted Sally Dows on her family’s plantation. Two California stories follow: The Conspiracy of Mrs. Bunker and The Transformation of Buckeye Camp.
A late Harte collection that shows him stepping outside the mining camps; its Reconstruction setting carries the racial attitudes of its day. Download the free EPUB.