The Luck of Roaring Camp
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- Under 100
- First published
- 1868
- Pages
- 377
About this book
Bret Harte more or less invented the popular image of the California Gold Rush with these sketches, first collected in 1870. In the title story, a rough mining camp of gamblers and hard cases is transformed when a baby is left in its care after the death of the camp's only woman, and the men set about raising the child with unexpected tenderness. Other tales, including the much-anthologized The Outcasts of Poker Flat, follow gamblers, drifters, and outcasts whose gruff exteriors hide surprising decency. Harte mixed sentiment, irony, and frontier color into a formula that made him internationally famous and shaped the American Western for generations of writers who followed.
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Book facts
- Author
- Bret Harte
- First published
- 1868
- Reading time
- About 9 hours
- Pages
- 377
- Language
- English
- Genre
- American Classics
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online