These fifteen stories bring the California Gold Rush to life with their boisterous assemblage of rough-clad miners, pistol-packing preachers, iron-willed women, and philosophical gamblers. Theirs was an unpredictable world, filled with gold strikes and freak tragedies, when the wisdom of the gambler sometimes counted for more than that of the preacher. A master storyteller, Harte weaves tales that seem to come directly from the campfire, where the spinning of yarns and swapping of lies were the highest form of entertainment.
- ISBN10 0930588886
- ISBN13 9780930588885
- Publish Date 14 November 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 March 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Heyday Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 192
- Language English