Miners, gamblers and outcasts of the California diggings fill these stories: a camp of rough men adopts an orphaned baby, a band of exiles is trapped by snow in the Sierra, a partner stands by a condemned friend in Tennessee’s Partner, and a schoolmaster takes up the wild girl Mliss. An introduction sketches Harte’s life.
The stories that made Harte famous and shaped the fiction of the American West. Download the free EPUB.