Author: Bret HartePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 388
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A treasure of the redwoods and other tales
Author: Bret HarteCressy, A treasure of the redwoods, and other tales
Author: Bret HarteCressy, A treasure of the redwoods, and other tales
Author: Bret HarteThe Writings of Bret Harte: A treasure of the redwoods and other tales
Author: Bret HartePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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The Writings of Bret Harte: A treasure of the redwoods, and other tales [c1903
Author: Bret HarteA Treasure of the Redwoods
Author: Bret HartePublisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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A Treasure of the Redwoods and Other Tales
Author: Bret HarteA Treasure of the Redwoods; And Other Tales
Author: Francis Bret HartePublisher: General Books
ISBN: 9781153840811
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1903. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... BOHEMIAN DAYS IN SAN FRANCISCO It is but just to the respectable memory of San Francisco that in these vagrant recollections I should deprecate at once any suggestion that the levity of my title described its dominant tone at any period of my early experiences. On the contrary, it was a singular fact that while the rest of California was swayed by an easy, careless unconventionalism, or swept over by waves of emotion and sentiment, San Francisco preserved an intensely material and practical attitude, and even a certain austere morality. I do not, of course, allude to the brief days of '49, when it was a straggling beach of huts and stranded hulks, but to the earlier stages of its development into the metropolis of California. Its first tottering steps in that direction were marked by a distinct gravity and decorum. Even during the period when the revolver settled small private difficulties, and Vigilance Committees adjudicated larger public ones, an unmistakable seriousness and respectability was the ruling sign of its governing class. It was not improbable that under the reign of the Committee the lawless and vicious class were more appalled by the moral spectacle of several thousand black-coated, serious-minded business men in embattled procession than by mere force of arms, and one "suspect"--a prize-fighter--is known to have committed suicide in his cell after confrontation with his grave and passionless shopkeeping judges. Even that peculiar quality of Californian humor which was apt to mitigate the extravagances of the revolver and the uncertainties of poker had no place in the decorous and responsible utterance of San Francisco. The press was sober, materialistic, practical--when it was not severely admonitory of existing evil; the few smaller papers that...
A Treasure of the Redwoods
Author: Bret HartePublisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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A Treasure of the Redwoods
Author: Bret HartePublisher:
ISBN: 9781294141631
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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