The complete online text of In the Carquinez Woods 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...

Barges, tugboats, and container ships parade daily along the Carquinez Strait, at the northeast end of San Pablo Bay. And now there's balcony viewing of the passing show-from Carquinez Shoreline Regional Park, opened last summer. On a cool fall day, it's a...

The Carquinez Strait is the watery throat of California--an 8-mile channel between Vallejo and Martinez through which 4.5 trillion gallons of water pour each year en route to the Pacific Ocean. The strait is also a crossroads. Deepwater ports at. Carquinez permit oceangoing...