Colonel Starbottle's Client by Bret Harte, Fiction, Westerns, Historical, Short Stories

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Bret Harte

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Bret Harte is a fondly remembered western writer who spent only eighteen of his sixty-six years in the American west -- in fact, he went on, in 1878, to get work as an American consul in Germany, and as far as we can tell, never came back to the United States. He died in 1902, and was buried in the churchyard of St. Peter's Church, in Frimley, Surrey, England. Even so, the American west was in his heart, and that was what he wrote about -- here, in Colonel Starbottle's Client, including stories like "Colonel Starbottle's Client," "The Postmistress of Laurel Run," "A Night at 'Hays, '" "Johnson's 'Old Woman, '" "The New Assistant at Pine Clearing School," "In a Pioneer Restaurant," "A Treasure of the Galleon," "Out of a Pioneer's Trunk," and "The Ghosts of Stukeley Castle." Harte was a wonderful writer; this is a volume you won't want to miss.

Author Biography:

Francis Bret Harte (1836 - 1902) 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, fiction, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials and magazine sketches in addition to fiction. As he moved from California to the eastern U.S. to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories but his Gold Rush tales have been most often reprinted, adapted and admired.

Release date Australia

August 1st, 2011

Author

Bret Harte

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

132

Dimensions

152x229x11

ISBN-13

9781463897529

Product ID

27448884

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