The complete online text of The Crusade of the Excelsior 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...

The Madonna of Excelsior. By Zakes Mda. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. Pp. 258. $23.00. Zakes Mda's novel depicts small-town culture in South Africa's Orange Free State with all its warts and blemishes: adultery, suicide, corruption, jealousies, reconciliations, and cherry festivals....

MARK J. CZERWINSKI, STAFF WRITER The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 03-01-2006 ON A CRUSADE -- Vier leads young BC by DePaul By MARK J. CZERWINSKI, STAFF WRITER Date: 03-01-2006, Wednesday Section: SPORTS Edtion: All Editions ORADELL — On the surface, there...