The complete online text of Snow-Bound at Eagle's 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...

AMESBURY - Try to think of last weekend's snowstorm as a stage- setter. John Greenleaf Whittier lived at 86 Friend St. when he wrote his classic poem "Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl." The long verse was published on Feb. 17, 1866, and quickly brought...

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