Title:  A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country

Author:  Thomas Dykes Beasley

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A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country

By Thomas Dykes Beasley

Author of “The Coming of Portola”

With A Foreward by Charles A. Murdock

Above the pines the moon was slowly drifting,
The river sang below;
The dim Sierras, far beyond, uplifting
Their minarets of snow.
- Dickens in Camp.

The Chapters

Foreword

Preface

Reminiscences of Bret Harte.  “Plain Language From Truthful James.”  The
Glamour of the Old Mining Towns

Inception of the Tramp.  Stockton to Angel’s Camp.  Tuttletown and the
“Sage of Jackass Hill”

Tuolumne to Placerville.  Charm of Sonora and Fascination of San Andreas and Mokelumne Hill

J. H. Bradley and the Cary House.  Ruins of Coloma.  James W. Marshall and
His Pathetic End

Auburn to Nevada City Via Colfax and Grass Valley.  Ben Taylor and His
Home

E. W. Maslin and His Recollections of Pioneer Days in Grass Valley. 
Origin of Our Mining Laws

Grass Valley to Smartsville.  Sucker Flat and Its Personal Appeal

Smartsville to Marysville.  Some Reflections on Automobiles and “Hoboes”

Bayard Taylor and the California of Forty-nine.  Bret Harte and His
Literary Pioneer Contemporaries

The Illustrations

Ruins of Coloma, a Name “Forever Associated With the Wildest Scramble for Gold the World Has Ever Been”