The Luck of Roaring Camp

Bret Harte was an American short-story writer and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction. As he moved from California to the eastern US to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but his Gold Rush tales have been the works most often reprinted, adapted, and admired. We offer now some samples of his diversity in a collection of his short stories.

The Luck of Roaring CampThe Outcasts of Poker FlatsTennessee's PartnerThe Idyl of Red GulchBrown of CalaverasMuck-A-MuckThe Ninety-Nine GuardsmenMr. Midshipman BreezyJohn JenkinsThe Hoodlum BandThe Legend of Monte Del DiabloThe Legend of Devil's Point