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 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 "printer's devil," a person who set the type for the printing...

"The Outcasts of Poker Flat" is a short story by Bret Harte. This story is an example of local color and realism during the Gilded Generation. Though born in Albany, Harte was a passionate writer of the...

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This essay explains how Bret Harte relates "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" to his real life history. "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" reflects the time of the California Gold Strike and Harte basically tells his audience that gambling is a huge risk and should not be taken lightly. The results of the California Gold Rush ended up being that very few people actually found gold and those who didn't were left homeless and poor.