Montana; The Magazine of Western History, July 1st, 2001
SELECTED LETTERS OF BRET HARTE Gary Scharnhorst, Editor University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1997. Illustrations, notes, index. xv + 464 pp. $34.95. In "Rehabilitating Bret Harte" (Documentary Editing, March 1997), Gary Scharnhorst, author of Bret Harte's California (1990), lamented that "Harte's writings [had ] disappeared from the textual landscape like books banned in Boston." This collection of letters is his effort to "rehabilitate" Harte's reputation. From a pool of more than 2,000 letters, Scharnhorst selected 259, over half ofwhich had never been published. The only other collection...
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