The complete online text of The Story of a Mine 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...

Speaking recently to the Mining Foundation of the Southwest, where he was inducted into the American Mining Hall of Fame, Peabody Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer In Englehard urged the US mining industry to raise the public's understanding of an activity that...

(New York: Twayne 1996). SHORTLY AFTER Marat Moore won a discrimination suit against the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) in May 1996, this book was released. The culmination of a 15-year-long sojourn by Moore, it is a compilation of interviews with...