Maruja (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Bret Harte

Overview

Bret Harte blazed new trails in fiction with his witty, heart-rending stories of California and the frontier. These yarns collected in 1896 include “Snow-Bound at Eagle’s,” “A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready,” “A Drift from Redwood Camp,” “Captain Jim’s Friend,” “The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh,” and “A Knight-Errant of the Foothills.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411441736
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	03/08/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	278
File size:	189 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902) wrote “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” and many other stories and poems about the Gold Rush. His writings gave the world a new outlook on the American West. He worked as miner, teacher, messenger, newspaper reporter and editor, as well as secretary of the San Francisco Mint, and was appointed U. S. consul in Germany and Scotland.