Name: Frontier Stories
Price: 43.99 CAD
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Author: Bret Harte
ISBN: 9781495425530

Frontier Stories

By Bret Harte 21 Jun, 2019

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Frontier Stories Tales of America's wild west from Bret Harte. Harte's racy frontier tales were popular in the early 1900s when the author first came to national fame with his story “The Luck of Roaring Camp”. This edition includes seven more stories, including this excerpt from 'At the Mission of San Carmel': "It was noon of the 10th of August, 1838. The monotonous coast line between Monterey and San Diego had set its hard outlines against the steady glare of the Californian sky and the metallic glitter of the Pacific Ocean. The weary succession of rounded, dome-like hills obliterated all sense of distance; the rare whaling vessel or still rarer trader, drifting past, saw no change in these rusty undulations, barren of distinguishing peak or headland, and bald of wooded crest or timbered ravine. The withered ranks of wild oats gave a dull procession of uniform color to the hills, unbroken by any relief of shadow in their smooth, round curves. As far as the eye could reach, sea and shore met in one bleak monotony, flecked by no passing cloud, stirred by no sign of life or motion. Even sound was absent; the Angelus, rung from the invisible Mission tower far inland, was driven back again by the steady northwest trades, that for half the year had swept the coast line and left it abraded of all umbrage and color." ** Less

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