Three long stories make up this collection. The first opens on the bare Californian coast near a Spanish mission in 1838; “A Blue Grass Penelope” follows a Kentucky-born wife in the California gold country; and “Left Out on Lone Star Mountain” tells of a partnership of hard-up miners and the uneven turn of their luck.
Harte at his best on the people of the Western frontier, mixing humour, pathos and sudden violence. Download the free EPUB.