The complete online text of Devil's Ford by Bret Harte.

Francis Brett Harte (1837-1902), known as Bret Harte, an American poet and fiction writer who specialized in local color and regional stories, set the fashion in fiction for a number of writers in the era following the Civil War. Bret Harte, born in Alba...

Bret Harte was the first Pacific slope writer to gain an international reputation for his work. As a deft observer of character and conditions, he introduced to a worldwide audience the picturesque life of mid-nineteenth-century northern California. Yet...

Bret Harte was the first Pacific slope writer to gain an international reputation for his work. As a deft observer of character and conditions, he introduced to a worldwide audience the picturesque life of mid-nineteenth-century northern California. Yet...

Ford, 87, is taken to hospital for sinus infection treatment Associated Press Wednesday, August 2, 2000 Philadelphia -- Former President Gerald Ford was treated for a sinus infection at a Philadelphia hospital after being honored Tuesday night at the Republican a...

THE FORDS. By Peter Collier and David Horowitz. Collins; 496 pages; 15 [pounds]. Summit Books; $22.45 HERE is revisionism indeed. Henry Ford II the fat drunk with a "zipper problem" (as three wives and countless other women could attest), emerges with his...