1900. Bret Harte's witty, sometimes heart-rending tales of frontier California earned him acclaim during the 1860s as the new prophet of American letters. His books, The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat and M'liss, helped establish the foundations of western American fiction. Contents: A Niece of Snapshot Harry's; What Happened at the Fonda; Mr. Bilson's Housekeeper; Jimmy's Big Brother from California; The Youngest Miss Piper; A Widow of the Santa Ana Valley; The Mermaid of Lighthouse Point; Three Vagabonds of Trinidad; A Mercury of the Foot-Hills; Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff; The Landlord of the Big Flume Hotel; The Reincarnation of Smith; Lanty Foster's Mistake; An Ali Baba of the Sierras; and The Four Guardians of Lagrange. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.