1892. 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 Sappho of Green Springs; The Chatelaine of Burnt Ridge; Through the Santa Clara Wheat; and A Maecenas of the Pacific Slope. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.