The Luck of Roaring Camp, Bret Harte
The Luck of Roaring Camp, Bret Harte
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The Luck of Roaring Camp
And Other Short Stories

Author: Bret Harte

Narrator: John Rayburn

Unabridged: 4 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/20/2021

Categories: Fiction, Western, Classic

Synopsis

Bret Harte was an American short-story writer and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction. As he moved from California to the eastern US to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but his Gold Rush tales have been the works most often reprinted, adapted, and admired. We offer now some samples of his diversity in a collection of his short stories.“The Luck of Roaring Camp”“The Outcasts of Poker Flats”“Tennessee’s Partner”“The Idyl of Red Gulch”“Brown of Calaveras”“Muck-A-Muck”“The Ninety-Nine Guardsmen”“Mr. Midshipman Breezy”“John Jenkins”“The Hoodlum Band”“The Legend of Monte Del Diablo”“The Legend of Devil’s Point”

About Bret Harte

Bret Harte (1836–1902) was born in Albany, New York, and was raised in New York City. He had no formal education, but he inherited a love for books. Harte wrote for the San Franciscan Golden Era paper. There he published his first condensed novels, which were brilliant parodies of the works of well-known authors, such as Dickens and Cooper. Later, he became clerk in the US branch mint. This job gave Harte time to also work for the Overland Monthly, where he published his world-famous “Luck of the Roaring Camp” and commissioned Mark Twain to write weekly articles. In 1871, Harte was hired by the Atlantic Monthly for $10,000 to write twelve stories a year, which was the highest figure paid to an American writer at the time.

About John Rayburn

John Rayburn is a veteran of over sixty years in broadcasting. He served as a news/sports anchor and show host, and his TV newscast achieved the largest share of audience figures of any major-market TV newscast in the nation. John is a member of the Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame. He is well suited to bring fascinating stories to life concerning the people, places, and things that combine to present lively observations of our day-to-day lives.

Reviews

Goodreads review by John on September 27, 2018

It is a pretty sad tale that starts off tragically and ends in tragedy as well. I'm not a big fan of stories that make you feel worse than you were when you started reading them.......more

Goodreads review by Wayne on December 12, 2019

'The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Stories' by Bret Harte is a series of stories all set in the Wild West of California during the 1800s. The title story is one I was familiar with from reading assignments in school. A gruff group of prospectors finds a baby in their midst and names it Luck. Other s......more

Goodreads review by janet wakefield on December 19, 2023

This book is so-so compared to stories written by Mark Twain (he projects a lot of wit). I chose to read Bret Harte because as a child I vacationed in Twain Harte (hence named after the two authors) and always wondered about Harte's writings. Twain Harte is located in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range......more

Goodreads review by J. David on November 11, 2024

Yawn. Stick to Mark Twain.......more

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