Harte

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) FRANCIS BRET, an Amerfornia in 1854, and figured as a coal N. Y., Aug. 25, 1839. He went to Cali- "Golden Era," in which appeared some dealer, a teacher , and a typesetter on the of his earliest literary efforts. He next became editor of the " Californian," and Mint at San Francisco; in 1868 he bein 1864 secretary secretary to the United States came editor of the "Overland Monthly," in which appeared , in 1869, the humorous poem of "The Heathen Chinee." In 1878 he became United States consul at Crefeld, whence he was transferred to 1885. Among his best known works are Glasgow in 1880 , and remained there till "The Luck of Roaring Camp"; "The Outcasts of Poker Flat"; "The Argonauts of '49"; "Two Men of Sandy Bar"; "Gabriel Conroy" ; "Mrs. Skagg's Husbands"; "East and West Poems"; "In the Carquinez Woods"; "Maruja, a Waif of the Plains"; "A Ward of the Novel"; "Crusade of the Excelsior"; "A Golden Gate"; "A Sappho of Green "Tales of Trail and Town"; "Under the Springs"; "Susy " ; "Three Partners"; Redwoods"; etc. He died May 5, 1902. State of Connecticut, port of entry and