The complete online text of From Sand Hill to Pine 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...

OUT ON THE ALABAMA/TENNESSEE state line where the roads are still dirt and a few miles off the Natchez Trace, you can find the current home of the Pine Hill Haints. For many people there's not a lot to be seen out in...

PITTSFIELD, MA -- Sharing a dedication for historic preservation, bedding manufacturer Pine Cone Hill and Colonial Williamsburg, in Williamsburg, VA, will formally introduce the Colonial Williamsburg collection this market. "Colonial Williamsburg's vast archives provide endless opportunities for the reinterpretation of 18th-century designs...