SOURCE: “Bret Harte, Mark Twain, and the San Francisco Circle,” in A Literary History of the American West, Texas Christian University Press, 1987, pp. 339-58.
In the following essay, Morrow details the birth and growth of the Western local color movement, emphasizing the contributions of such figures as Bret Harte and Mark Twain.
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