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A collection of timeless westerns from some of the most well known authors of the genre, this recording includes the following stories: The Little Gold Miners by Joaquin Miller, Bulger's Reputation by Bret Harte, The Leaf of Red Rose by W.H.H. Murray, The Secret of Macarger's Gulch by Ambrose Bierce, The Californian's Tale by Mark Twain, Twelve O'Clock by Stephen Crane, The Vengeance of Padre Arroyo by Gertrude Atherton, A Deal in Wheat by Frank Norris, The Caballero's Way by O. Henry, On the Divide by Willa Cather, Timberline by Owen Wister, The Passing of Black Eagle by O. Henry, Ananias Green by B. M. Bower, Lightning by Zane Grey, The Pardon of Becky Day by John Fox, and The Laughter of Slim Malone by Max Brand.
Summary
A collection of timeless westerns from some of the most well known authors of the genre, this recording includes the following stories: "The Little Gold Miners" by Joaquin Miller, "Bulger's Reputation" by Bret Harte, "The Leaf of Red Rose" by W.H.H. Murray, "The Secret of Macarger's Gulch" by Ambrose Bierce, "The Californian's Tale" by Mark Twain, "Twelve O'Clock" by Stephen Crane, "The Vengeance of Padre Arroyo" by Gertrude Atherton, "A Deal in Wheat" by Frank Norris, "The Caballero's Way" by O. Henry, "On the Divide" by Willa Cather, "Timberline" by Owen Wister, "The Passing of Black Eagle" by O. Henry, "Ananias Green" by B. M. Bower, "Lightning" by Zane Grey, "The Pardon of Becky Day" by John Fox, and "The Laughter of Slim Malone" by Max Brand.
Summary
Includes tales by Mark Twain; W. H. H. Murray; O. Henry; Zane Grey; and many more.
Author Notes
Bret Harte's birth year is variously given as 1836 and 1839, and his tombstone bears the date 1837. He is remembered especially for his two short stories, "The Luck of Roaring Camp" (1868) and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" (1870), both achievements in local color. The former is the story of an orphaned baby adopted by the men in a gold-rush-era mining camp; it was dramatized by Dion Boucicault in 1894. The latter is a tale about four undesirables expelled from a mining camp and their losing battle against a blizzard.
Although he was born in the East and lived there and in Europe most of his life, Harte's 17 years of residence in California have associated him most closely with that state, and the scenes of all his successful stories are set in the West. His contemporary sketches of life in San Francisco during the 1860s, written with Mark Twain, were first collected in book form as Sketches of the Sixties (1926). When he went east again to settle in Boston in 1871, his talent seems to have deserted him. Much of his later life was spent in England. Today, his formerly out-of-print stories are available in reprint versions from Ayer Publishers.
(Bowker Author Biography)
