The complete online text of Frontier Stories 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...

African American soldiers played an important role in Union regiments during the US Civil War and in expanding US land boundaries. Called Buffalo Soldiers, they fought under Generals Grant, Sheridan and Sherman, and helped bring about a short-lived peace treaty with the Indians of...

Tom and Jack: a frontier story Geraldine Byrne Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 2003, 303 pp, ISBN 1920731075 Geraldine Byrne's carefully researched social history tells the story of the overland cattle drives across northern Australia to the Kimberley in the...