Bret Harte

Bret Harte was born in Albany in 1836 and left school at thirteen. Having set off for California at about seventeen, he was in turn a miner, a schoolteacher, a Wells Fargo messenger and a typesetter, then an editor in San Francisco and head of a literary review in the city. In 1860, an article in which he denounced the massacre of Wiyot Indians cost him his place in the small town of Union. For a time the best-paid author in the country, he lost his audience within a few years, obtained consulships at Krefeld and then at Glasgow, and died in 1902 at Camberley, in England.

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• Short storiesThe Luck of Roaring Camp and Other SketchesBret Harte · 1870LiteraturePublic domain