Fiction · 1870
Legends and Tales
Seven early pieces, most of them burlesque. "The Legend of Monte del Diablo" opens with a warning that the reader will detect a lack of authenticity in what follows, and proceeds to an encounter between a Franciscan padre and the devil on a California mountain. "The Adventure of Padre Vincentio", "The Legend of Devil's Point" and "The Devil and the Broker" work the same mock-pious vein; "The Ogress of Silver Land" is a fairy tale about a mining boom; "The Ruins of San Francisco" is a future archaeologist's report on the city, excavated and misunderstood; and "A Night at Wingdam" is a plain account of a very bad hotel.
These are Bret Harte's newspaper pieces from his San Francisco years, written for the Golden Era and the Californian in the 1860s and collected afterwards. They show him working out the mixture of sentiment and mockery that the mining-camp stories would make famous.
This Bibliomancer edition presents all seven pieces complete.
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