The Story of a Mine

by Bret Harte

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The Story of a Mine is by Bret Harte. The dedication, signed Bret Harte and dated New York, December, 1877, is addressed to Udo Brachvogel, Esq. The contents list a Part II called In the Courts and a Part III called In Congress.

Chapter I, called Who Sought It, describes a steep trail leading over the Monterey Coast Range, where Concho is very tired, very dusty and very much disgusted. A character named Concho says "It is the camp" when a thin ghost-like stream of smoke seemed to be steadily drawn by invisible hands into the invisible ether. A passage about the stranger, left to himself, describes him as a vagabond by birth and education, a swindler by profession, an outcast by reputation.

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Bret Harte

Bret Harte was an American short-story writer, poet, editor, and diplomat whose name became closely associated with literary depictions of California mining communities. As editor of the Overland Monthly, he published The Luck of Roaring Camp in 1868, the story that brought him broad recognition through its portrait of miners caring for an orphaned child.

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Author: Bret Harte
Pages: 90
Language: English
Genre: Satire
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