The Poetical Works of Bret Harte (1899)

Harte, Bret. The Poetical Works of Bret Harte. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company | The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1899. Household Edition. [11548] 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. Portrait of Harte, 321 clean pp., tight. Good. Hardcover. A volume of Harte's Poems, 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,