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Bret Harte (/ hɑːrt / HART, born Francis Brett Hart, August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902) was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush.
Aug 21, 2024 · Bret Harte (born August 25, 1836, Albany, New York, U.S.—died May 5, 1902, London, England) was an American writer who helped create the local-colour school in American fiction. Harte’s family settled in New York City and Brooklyn in 1845.
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Born: August 25, 1836. Died: May 6, 1902. Francis Bret Harte (1836 - 1902) was an American author and poet, who worked in a number of different professional capacities including miner, teacher, messenger and journalist before turning to full time writing in 1871.
Francis Brett Hart, known as Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902), was an American short story writer and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush.
Jun 8, 2018 · In 1868, Bret Harte burst onto the literary scene as a popular writer of tales set in California mining camps and boomtowns and as the founding editor of a new magazine called Overland Monthly. By 1871, he signed the highest paying publishing contract in American history to that time.
Mar 28, 2018 · Introduction. Bret Harte (b. 1837–d. 1902), long regarded as a pioneering western American local colorist, is best-known today for half a dozen short stories, including “The Luck of Roaring Camp” (August 1868), “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” (January 1869), and “Tennessee’s Partner” (October 1869), as well as the poem “Plain ...
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Bret Harte (1836-1902) [3707] Louis Charles McClure, The Gold Miner (c. 1890), courtesy of Denver Public Library, Western History Collection. At the height of his career, in the 1860s and 1870s, Bret Harte was one of the most famous and most highly paid American writers.