The Luck of Roaring Camp

The Luck of Roaring Camp

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Title: The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales
Author: Bret Harte

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THE WRITINGS OF BRET HARTE

THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP AND OTHER TALES
WITH CONDENSED NOVELS, SPANISH AND AMERICAN
LEGENDS, AND EARLIER PAPERS
By BRET HARTE
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

PUBLISHERS' NOTE

In 1882, it was felt to be desirable that Mr. Harte's scattered work
should be brought together in convenient form, and the result was a
compact edition of five volumes. After that date, as before, he

continued to produce poems, tales, sketches, and romances in steady
succession, and in 1897 his publishers undertook a uniform and orderly
presentation of the results of more than thirty years of his literary
activity. The fourteen volumes that embodied those results were
enriched by Introductions and a Glossary prepared by Mr. Harte
himself.
The present Riverside Edition is based on the collection made in 1897,
but is enlarged by the inclusion of later work.
Boston, 4 Park Street, Autumn, 1902.

CONTENTS

GENERAL INTRODUCTION
THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP AND OTHER SKETCHES. The
Luck Of Roaring Camp The Outcasts Of Poker Flat Miggles
Tennessee's Partner The Idyl Of Red Gulch Brown Of Calaveras
CONDENSED NOVELS. Muck-A-Muck: A Modern Indian Novel
Selina Sedilia The Ninety-Nine Guardsmen Miss Mix Mr. Midshipman
Breezy: A Naval Officer Guy Heavystone; Or, "Entire:" A Muscular
Novel John Jenkins; Or, The Smoker Reformed Fantine. After The
French Of Victor Hugo "La Femme." After The French Of M. Michelet
The Dweller Of The Threshold N. N.: Being A Novel In The French
Paragraphic Style No Title Handsome Is As Handsome Does Lothaw;
Or, The Adventures Of A Young Gentleman In Search Of A Religion
The Haunted Man: A Christmas Story Terence Denville Mary Mcgillup
The Hoodlum Band; Or, The Boy Chief, The Infant Politician, And The
Pirate Prodigy
EARLIER SKETCHES. M'liss: An Idyl Of Red Mountain. I. Smith's
Pocket II. Which Contains A Dream Of The Just Aristides III. Under
The Greenwood Tree IV. Which Has A Good Moral Tendency V.

"Open Sesame" VI. The Trials Of Mrs. Morpher VII. The People vs.
John Doe Waters VIII. The Author To The Reader--Explanatory IX.
Cleaning Up X. The Red Rock High-Water Mark A Lonely Ride The
Man Of No Account Notes By Flood And Field Waiting For The Ship:
A Fort Point Idyl A Night At Wingdam
SPANISH AND AMERICAN LEGENDS. The Legend Of Monte Del
Diablo The Right Eye Of The Commander The Legend Of Devil's
Point The Adventure Of Padre Vicentio: A Legend Of San Francisco
The Devil And The Broker: A Medieval Legend The Ogress Of Silver
Land; Or, The Diverting History Of Prince Badfellah And Prince
Bulleboye The Christmas Gift That Came To Rupert: A Story For
Little Soldiers

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

The opportunity here offered [Footnote: By the appearance in England
several years ago of an edition of the author's writings as then
collected.] to give some account of the genesis of these Californian
sketches, and the conditions under which they were conceived, is
peculiarly tempting to an author who has been obliged to retain a
decent professional reticence under a cloud of ingenious surmise,
theory, and misinterpretation. He very gladly seizes this opportunity to
establish the chronology of the sketches, and incidentally to show that
what are considered the "happy accidents" of literature are very apt to
be the results of quite logical and