These late stories return to the California of Harte’s youth. A mining camp on Sawyer’s Ledge prepares a welcome for a boy’s brother, a widow of the Santa Ana Valley takes a decision, a mermaid haunts Lighthouse Point, Reuben Allen goes to see life in San Francisco, and three vagabonds of Trinidad make their own kind of family.
A good gathering of Harte’s mix of humour and sentiment, set in the West he made famous. Download the free EPUB.