A baby born in a rough California mining camp transforms the men who adopt him in the title story; gamblers and a fallen woman are snowed in after banishment in “The Outcasts of Poker Flat”; and “Tennessee’s Partner” tells of loyalty beyond reason. This volume adds “Miggles”, “Brown of Calaveras”, Harte’s comic Condensed Novels parodying Cooper and others, Spanish legends and early papers.
The stories that put the gold-rush West into American literature in the 1860s. Download the free EPUB.