The complete online text of The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales 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...

Once upon a time not long ago, there was a grassy knoll overlooking Hingham Bay, a home to friendly ghosts, miniature Christmas trees, a bell buoy that talked with waves, and stranded jellyfish on a pebble beach that looked like honey drops on crunchy...

Byline: Joy Powell; Staff Writer Ladysmith, Wis. -- Four firefighters who were almost sucked away by Monday's F3 tornado said Tuesday they believed at the time that they were going to die. The tornado caused nearly $21 million in damage in Ladysmith,...