Author:Francis Bret Harte

Francis Bret Harte
(1836–1902)

Francis Bret Harte

Works

Novels

• Gabriel Conroy (1876) Project Gutenberg
• Thankful Blossom (1877)
• Snow-Bound at Eagle's (1884) (external scan)
• In the Carquinez Woods (1884)
• Devil's Ford (1887)
• The Crusade of the Excelsior (1887)
• The Argonauts of North Liberty (1888)
• A Ward of the Golden Gate (1890) (external scan)
• A Waif of the Plains (1890) (external scan)
• Clarence (1895) Project Gutenberg IA
• Susy, A Story of the Plains (1893) (external scan)
• In a Hollow of the Hills (1896)
• The Three Partners (1897) (external scan)

Short stories

Short story collections

• Condensed Novels (1867) 1880 edition: IA
• The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches (1870)
• Tales of the Argonauts, and Other Sketches (1875), 1876 ed: IA
• Drift from Two Shores (1878)
• The Twins of Table Mountain, and Other Stories (1879) (external scan)
• On the Frontier (1884) (external scan)
• By Shore and Sedge (1885) IA
• Frontier Stories (1887) (external scan)
• A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready; A Phyllis of the Sierras; A Drift from Redwood Camp (1888) (external scan)
• The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh, and Other Tales, 2 vols. (1889) IA 1, IA 2
• A Sappho of Green Springs and Other Tales (1891) (external scan)
• Colonel Starbottle's Client (1892)
• Sally Dows, etc. (1893) short stories IA
• The Bell-Ringer of Angel's, and Other Stories (1894) IA
• A Protégée of Jack Hamlin's, and Other Stories (1894)
• A Protégée of Jack Hamlin's [and other stories; with] Jeff Briggs's: A Love Story (c. 1894) (external scan)
• Barker's Luck and Other Stories (1896) (transcription project)
• Stories in Light and Shadow (1896)
• Maruja, And Other Tales (1896) (external scan)
• Tales of Trail and Town (1898)
• Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation; and Other Stories (1899)
• Mrs. Skagg's Husbands; Urban Sketches; Legends and Tales (1900) (external scan)
• Under the Redwoods (1901)
• Openings in the Old Trail (1902)
• Condensed Novels: Second Series New Burlesques (1902)
• Trent's Trust and Other Stories (1903)

Individual short stories

• An Ali Baba of the Sierras
• "Baby Sylvester" (1873-74, St. Nicholas)
• Barker's Luck
• The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion (1899, Windsor)
• Brown of Calaveras
• A Buckeye Hollow Inheritance
• Bulger's Reputation, "Bulger's Reputation" in The Strand Magazine, 11 (62) (1896)
• Captain Jim's Friend
• Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff
• The Convalescence of Jack Hamlin
• A Convert of the Mission
• The Devotion of Enriquez, (1895 Nov, Century)
• Dick Boyle's Business Card
• Dick Spindler's Family Christmas (1898, Windsor)
• A Drift from Redwood Camp," (1887, Century)
• An Episode of Fiddletown
• "Golly and the Christian, or, The Minx and the Manxman" (1901, Cosmopolitan) (ss)
• "The Heir of the McHulishes," (1893 Sept, Oct, Century)
• The Goddess of Excelsior
• The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh
• High Water Mark
• The Idyl of Red Gulch
• "An Ingenue of the Sierras,"
• In the Tules, "In the Tules" in The Strand Magazine, 10 (60) (1895)
• The Indiscretion of Elsbeth
• A Knight-Errant of the Foothills
• The Landlord of the Big Flume Hotel
• Lanty Foster's Mistake
• "Out of a Pioneer's Trunk" in The Strand Magazine, 1 (6) (1891)
• A Lonely Ride
• The Luck of Roaring Camp
• The Man of No Account
• "A Mercury of the Foot-Hills" (1901, Cosmopolitan)
• A Mercury of the Foothills (1902)
• Miggles
• Mr. Macglowrie's Widow
• Miss Peggy's Proteges
• Mliss
• A Mother of Five
• Notes by Flood and Field
• The Outcasts of Poker Flat
• The Reincarnation of Smith
• "The Postmistress of Laurel Run" in The Strand Magazine, 2 (9)
• Prosper's "Old Mother"
• A Pupil of Chestnut Ridge
• The Queen of the Pirate Isle (1887) (external scan), illustrated by Catherine Greenaway, a children's story
• The Reformation of James Reddy, (1893, Scribner's)
• The Right Eye of the Commander
• "Roger Catron's Friend" (Short Stories vol 10)
• "The Secret of Sobriente's Well" (1899, Windsor)
• A Secret of Telegraph Hill
• "A Ship of '49" (1885, 3-part novelette, English illustrated)
• The Sheriff of Siskyou
• "The Strange Experience of Alkali Dick" in The Strand Magazine, 14 (79) (1897).
• Tennessee's Partner
• Trent's Trust
• Two Saints of the Foot-hills, (1878, Scribner's)
• "Under the Eaves" (1899, Windsor)
• A Ward of Colonel Starbottle
• What the Engines Said
• "When the Waters Were Up at "Jules'"" (1898, Windsor vol 8)
• A Yellow Dog
• "Young Robin Gray" (1894, Short Stories) (also in The Bell-Ringer of Angel's 1894).

Poems

Poetry collections

• The Lost Galleon and Other Tales (1867)
• Poems (1871)
• East and West: Poems (1871)

Individual poems

• "After the Accident," (1873, Scribner's)
• "Plain Language from Truthful James" (1870) (subsequently known as "The Heathen Chinee")
• "The Legend of Glen Head," (1873, Scribner's)
• "Lines to a Portrait, by a Superior Person," (1897, Century)
• "Her Last Letter," (1898, Century)
• Her Letter
• "Portala's Cross", August 1869
• "What the Chimney Sang"
• "Mission Bells" in Sunset, 1913

Collected works

• Standard Library Edition (1896-1914), in 20 volumes

v.1. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales, with Condensed novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers. (external scan)

v.2. Tales of the Argonauts. (external scan)

v.3. The Story of a Mine and Other Tales. (external scan)

v.4. In the Carquinez Woods and Other Tales. (external scan)

v.5. Maruja and Other Tales. (external scan)

v.6. The Crusade of the Excelsior and Other Tales. (external scan)

v.7. Cressy and Other Tales. (external scan)

v.8. A First Family of Tasajara and Other Tales. (external scan)

v.9. A Waif of the Plains and Other Tales. (HathiTrust)

v.10. In a Hollow of the Hills and Other Tales. (external scan)

v.11. Thankful Blossom and Other Tales. (external scan)

v.12. Poems, and Two Men of Sandy Bar. (transcription project)

v.13. Gabriel Conroy, Bohemian papers, Stories of and for the Young (v. 1.). (external scan)

v.14. Gabriel Conroy, Bohemian papers, Stories of and for the Young (v. 2.). (external scan)

v.15. Three Partners and Other Tales. (external scan)

v.16. The Ancestors of Peter Atherly and Other Tales. (external scan)

v.17. A Niece of Snapshot Harry's and Other Tales. (external scan)

v.18. A Treasure of the Redwoods and Other Tales. (external scan)

v.19. Trent's Trust and Other Tales (inc. Glossary of Far-Western terms, An Index to Characters, A List of Artists). (external scan)

v.20. Stories and Poems and Other Uncollected writings. (external scan)

• Complete poetical works (1902) (external scan)

Unsorted

• From Sand Hill To Pine (1900) (external scan)

Works about Harte

• "Harte, Bret," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Harte, Francis Bret," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Harte, Francis Bret," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Harte, Francis Bret," by George Edwin Rines in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)

On his works

• “Bret Harte” in Varied Types by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1908)
• "Tales of the Argonauts, The," by William B. Cairns in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)