BRET HARTE Stories of the Early West Author:Bret Harte Bret Harte was the first important American writer to use the early western mining settlements, the colorful lives of prospectors, gamblers, early ranchers and frontier women, and the stage coach and derringer in his stories. He little knew that he thus was founding the most perennially popular type of American reading--the "western." Includes "... more »The Luck of the Roaring Camp" and 16 other exciting tales of mining and frontier days.« less