Bret Harte

Francis Bret Harte was best associated with his short fiction highlighting excavators, card sharks, and other sentimental figures of the California Gold Rush. In a vocation spreading over four decades, he composed verse, fiction, plays, addresses, book audits, articles, and magazine outlines notwithstanding fiction. As he moved from California toward the eastern U.S. to Europe, he joined new subjects and characters into his stories, however his Gold Rush stories have been frequently reproduced, adjusted and appreciated.