Bret Harte - Short Story

https://theoviebooks.wordpress.com/ Twain wrote: “Bret Harte got his California and his Californians by unconscious absorption, and put both of them into his tales alive,” even though Bret Harte never really knew the life of the mining camp.His mining experiences were too fragmentary, and consequently his portraits of mining life are wholly impressionistic. First published 1898 Ovi Magazine: published March 2022