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...
On the Frontier: A Melodrama in Two Acts, by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, was the third and last play in the Auden-Isherwood collaboration, first published in 1938. The play tells the story of the outbreak of war between the fictional European...
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The Frontiers 08/01/1999: 969 words, approx. 3 pages
Aug. 1 is the date traditionally reserved for writing about summer reading, but I suggest that you pick up a thriller instead of a business book. Myself, I am reading "Charlotte Gray," by Sebastian Faulks, a provocative novel of England and France during World...
After beating Western Pacific and posting a profit for the first time in years, Frontier is back on track Elaine X. Grant No one ever said starting an airline was easy, and Denver-based Frontier certainly hasn't found it so. But after many...
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 cracking down on Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq. Turkey rejected a...
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 senior Clark had secured what would become Illinois, Indiana and Michigan for the U.S....
