Outcasts of Poker Flat Summary
Bret Harte

"The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte Francis Bret Harte was born in 1836 in Albany, New York. After moving to San Francisco with his family in 1854, Harte began his literary career as a "prin... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

Bret Harte was born on August 25, 1836, in Albany, New York. In 1845, his father died, but in 1854, Bret and his family moved to San Francisco, California where his mother was remarried. Harte thou... Read more