Bret Harte 
Tales of the Argonauts (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 

This 1875 collection includes ‘The Rose of Tuolumne, ‘ ‘A Passage in the Life of Mr. John Oakhurst, ‘ ‘Wan Lee, the Pagan, ‘ ‘How Old Man Plunkett Went Home, ‘ ‘The Fool of Five Forks, ‘ ‘Baby Sylvester, ‘ ‘An Episode of Fiddletown, ‘ and ‘A Jersey Centenarian.’

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Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902) wrote “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” and many other stories and poems about the Gold Rush. His writings gave the world a new outlook on the American West. He worked as miner, teacher, messenger, newspaper reporter and editor, as well as secretary of the San Francisco Mint, and was appointed U. S. consul in Germany and Scotland.