AT THE MISSION OF SAN CARMEL
PROLOGUE
It was noon of the 10th of August, 1838. The
monotonous coast line between Monterey and San Diego
had set its hard outlines against the steady glare
of the ...
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Biography EssayBret 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...
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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...
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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 li...
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Bret Harte was one of the most important image makers of the Pacific slope during and immediately after the American Civil War. As such, he was important in establishing the image of the West, its co...
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From 1869, the year the final spike was driven into the transcontinental railroad, to 1876, when George Custer died at the Little Big Horn and the United States celebrated its centennial, Bret Harte e...
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A growling California grizzly bear crossing railroad tracks was the emblem for the Overland Monthly magazine that appeared 1 July 1868 on San Francisco's newsstands. The editor, Bret Harte , had adde...
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More than any other American writer, Bret Harte discovered the "literary West," or so Henry Seidel Canby declared in the Saturday Review of Literature for 17 April 1926. As founding editor of the Over...
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Madrid (dpa) - Spain's King Juan Carlos on Thursday received
representatives of the Uruguayan and Argentine presidents, who were
meeting in Madrid to discuss a conflict over...
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Islamabad (dpa) - Pro-Taliban militants on Wednesday killed three
soldiers in a rocket attack on a checkpoint in Pakistan's North-West
Frontier Province (NWFP) and targeted ...
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ANKARA, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Turkish and Iraqi officials said
on Saturday there were no plans for further talks between Turkey
and an Iraqi delegation visiting Ankara to seek an agreement on
crackin...
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Ceuta, Spain (dpa) - Spain's King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia were
Monday welcomed by thousands of cheering citizens waving national
flags at the start of a controversial vi...
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William Clark's goal was simple: He wanted to have a successful military career like his father. Clark's dad was George Rogers Clark, a Revolutionary War hero and successful plantation owner. The s...
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Police clashed with protesters Thursday at a Soviet war memorial in Estonia's capital as authorities prepared to remove the bodies despite Russia's angry objections.After largely peaceful rallies t...
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Angry demonstrators hurled rocks and bottles at police Thursday in clashes at a Soviet war memorial in Estonia's capital as authorities prepared to remove bodies from a grave at the site and reloca...
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The top commander of a Kurdish rebel group said his forces would resist any Turkish military incursion aimed at destroying rebel bases in northern Iraq, a news agency reported Saturday.Turkey has b...
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Madrid (dpa) - Representatives of the Uruguayan and Argentine
presidents continued meeting Thursday in Madrid to seek a
rapprochement in a conflict over a paper mill which i...
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Islamabad (dpa) - NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is
due to arrive in Pakistan Monday on a two-day visit aimed at
broadening relations with one of the military ...
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On the Frontier
Francis Brett Harte
(Francis) Bret(t) Harte
1ST LEAD: Spanish king mediates in Uruguayan-Argentine conflict
