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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.
His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in Alaska and the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life".
24 Μαΐ 2011 · Bret Harte was the first to tell the stories of the gold rush and it was certainly a place filled almost exclusively with young, healthy men. Ironically his first popular story, “The Luck of Roaring Camp,” is about a brand new baby.
20 Αυγ 2002 · The Age of Gold takes you from the beginning of the Gold Rush, when James Marshall discovered gold in John Sutter’s Mill, to the building of the transcontinental railroad. In-between there are a host of historical figures and fascinating stories.
25 Μαΐ 2011 · If you want a good page-turning story written by a master of his craft whose vivid characters triumph and fail, find love and defeat during the fantastic age of the California gold rush then John Putnam’s books are a sure-win ticket.
As he moved from California to the eastern United States to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but people most often reprinted, adapted, and admired his tales of the Gold Rush.
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War—the epic story of the California Gold Rush, “a fine, robust telling of one of the greatest adventure stories in history” (David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of John Adams).
