Bret Harte. Frontier Stories, California Gold Rush (1887)

Harte, Bret. Frontier Stories. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company | The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1887. [11549] Half calf with gold & peach marbled boards, same marbled paper as end papers, light scuffing/ edge-wear, 8 x 5 1/4 inches, top page edges gilt. 452 clean pp., tight. Good. Hardcover. A volume of Harte's California stories set during the Gold Rush years, in an attractive binding. Bret Harte (1836-1902), b. Albany, New York; d. Camberley, England. Harte became famous for his short stories and poems depicting miners, gamblers, and outlaws of the California Gold Rush. In 1854, at the age of 18, Harte went West to the California mining country. He became a journalist for the Northern Californian, a weekly paper, but his writing in support of Indians and Mexicans, especially his denunciation of a massacre of Indians in 1860 impinged upon his safety, and he moved to San Francisco. He began to write short stories, became the editor of the Californian, and in 1868, of the Ove