The complete online text of Under the Redwoods 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...

I once bought a postcard of a black and white photo of a cowboy hot tub--two guys soaking in one of those oblong stock watering tanks. I thought, why couldn't this be made into something more luxurious ? I knew there were round...

For curling up with a good book, it's hard to beat this outdoor bed under the redwood trees. Inside the bed's mitered redwood frame, a recessed plywood platform rests on 4-by-4 posts and supports the twin-bed air mattress. Behind the bed, a...