The best of Bret Harte Harte, Bret 1836-1902 creator Harper, Wilhelmina 1884-1973 selector. Peters, Aimée M. (Aimée Marguerite) selector. Brown, Paul 1893-1958 illustrator. Van Gelder, Robert 1904-1952 writer of introduction. text short story Short stories. short stories. Western fiction Short stories Short stories. Short stories. Western fiction. Nouvelles. mau Boston [Mass.] Houghton Mifflin [©1947] 1947 monographic eng print xiii, 434 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Introduction / by Robert Van Gelder -- The luck of Roaring Camp -- Tennessee's partner -- Brown of Calaveras -- How Santa Claus came to Simpson's Bar -- The idyll of Red Gulch -- Mrs. Skagg's husbands -- High-water mark -- A protégée of Jack Hamlin's -- Wan Lee, the pagan -- The postmistress of Laurel Run -- An ingénue of the Sierras -- The bell-ringer of Angel's -- A passage in the life of Mr. John Oakhurst -- Miggles -- Colonel Starbottle for the plaintiff -- The outcasts of Poker Flat -- Dick Boyle's business card -- Left out on Lone Star Mountain -- Plain language from Truthful James. selected by Wilhelmina Harper and Aimée M. Peters ; illustrated by Paul Brown. Seventh printing. committed to retain 20170930 20421231 HathiTrust https://www.hathitrust.org/shared_print_program PU Short stories, American 19th century Western stories Nouvelles américaines 19e siècle Short stories, American Western stories 1800-1899 fast PZ3.H252 Bf PS1822 813/.5 Best of Bret Harte Harte, Bret, 1836-1902. Boston, Houghton Mifflin [©1947] (OCoLC)647405496 0395077788 9780395077788 47011050 DLC 720201 20241023114417.0 in00000683317 eng