1888. 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. Gabriel Conroy is divided into seven books titled: On the Threshold; After Five Years; The Lead; Drifting; The Vein; A Dip; and The Bed Rock. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.