Author: Bret HartePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches
Author: Bret HartePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches
Author: Bret HartePublisher: Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
ISBN: 9781425523787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches
Author: Bret HartePublisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A collection of Sketches, stories and Bohemian papers by Bret Harte.
The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches
Author: Francis Bret HartePublisher:
ISBN: 9781017547245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Luck of Roaring Camp
Author: Bret HartePublisher:
ISBN: 9781594566240
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches
Author: Bret HartePublisher: General Books
ISBN: 9781458902283
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Houghton, Mifflin in 1899 in 274 pages; Subjects: Western stories; Cooking / General; Fiction / Anthologies; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Short Stories; Fiction / Westerns; History / General; History / United States / General;
The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches, by Bret Harte (Short Story)
Author: Bret HartePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781535471060
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
"The Luck of Roaring Camp" is a short story by American author Bret Harte. It was first published in the August 1868 issue of the Overland Monthly and helped push Harte to international prominence.The story is about the birth of a baby boy in a 19th-century gold prospecting camp. The boy's mother, Cherokee Sal, dies in childbirth, so the men of Roaring Camp must raise it themselves. Believing the child to be a good luck charm, the miners christen the boy Thomas Luck. Afterwards, they decide to refine their behavior and refrain from gambling and fighting. At the end of the story, however, Luck and a villager, Kentuck, perish in a flash flood that strikes the camp. Roaring Camp was a real place. It was a goldmining settlement on the Mokulmne River in Amador County, California. It was home to forty-niners seeking gold in and around the river; it is now a privately owned tourist attraction.The story's flood theme may have been inspired by California's Great Flood of 1862, which Harte witnessed.The story takes place in a small struggling mining town located in the foothills of the California mountains at the time of the gold rush. The camp is suffering from a long string of bad luck. With only one woman in their midst, it seems as though the miners have no future. However, the tide turns when a small boy is born. "Thomas Luck" is the first newborn the camp has seen in ages; things are looking up. The miners become cheerful, foliage begins to grow, and there is talk of building a hotel to attract outsiders. Unfortunately, the hope is wiped out by the sudden death of Luck in a flood. Water brought gold to the gulches, giving miners their first glimmer of hope. And water takes away what seems their last glimmer-Luck. Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 - May 5, 1902) was an American short story writer and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, fiction, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction. As he moved from California to the eastern U.S. to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but his Gold Rush tales have been most often reprinted, adapted, and admired.
The Works of Bret Harte: The luck of Roaring Camp, and other sketches
Author: Bret HarteThe Best Short Stories of Bret Harte
Author: Bret HartePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Bret Harte was the first American writer from the West Coast to gain an international reputation. He was instrumental in introducing frontier literature to eastern audiences. His stories established many of the basic characteristics of the western genre: rough, sarcastic humor, rustic dialect, and character types such as good-natured gamblers, greedy bankers, and prostitutes with hearts of gold.
Author: Bret Harte