1896. 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 Mliss, helped establish the foundations of western American fiction. Contents: The Crusade of the Excelsior; A Phyllis of the Sierras; Through the Santa Clara Wheat; A Sappho of Green Springs; and Out of a Pioneer's Trunk. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.