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....

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....

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 Overland Monthly in 1868, Harte was instrumental in...

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 enjoyed fame as the most popular and original writer...

A growling California grizzly bear crossing railroad tracks was the emblem for the Overland Monthly magazine that appeared 1 July 1868 on San Francisco's newsstands. The editor, Bret Harte , had added the railroad tracks to the California state symbol...

Bret Harte was one of the most important image makers of the Pacific slope during and immediately after the American Civil War. As such, he was important in establishing the image of the West, its concepts, and its national importance as a component in...

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...