The Luck of Roaring Camp Author:Frances Bret Harte The Luck of the Roaring Camp marks the beginning of Bret Harte's career as one of the most successful writers of his time. His formula of local color, sentiment, and broad, oftern humorous, moral contrasts, prove equally as successful when employed in poetry. He spent the older years of his life in England, where he continued to write of the old... more » west. He died in 1905 and was buried in Camberley,Surry.« less