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    A Niece of Snapshot Harry’s
    A Niece of Snapshot Harry’s
    A Niece of Snapshot Harry’s
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    A Niece of Snapshot Harry’s

    By Bret Harte

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    America has always had a fascination with the Wild West, and schoolchildren grow up learning about famous Westerners like Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hicock, as well as the infamous shootout at O.K. Corral. Pioneering and cowboys and Indians have been just as popular in Hollywood, with Westerners helping turn John Wayne and Clint Eastwood into legends on the silver screen. HBO’s Deadwood, about the historical 19th century mining town on the frontier was popular last decade.


    Not surprisingly, a lot has been written about the West, and one of the best known writers about the West in the 19th century was Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902), who wrote poetry and short stories during his literary career. Harte was on the West Coast by the 1860s, placing himself in perfect position to document and depict frontier life. 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKrill Press
    Release dateNov 25, 2015
    ISBN9781518311543
    A Niece of Snapshot Harry’s
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    Bret Harte

    Bret Harte (1836–1902) was an author and poet known for his romantic depictions of the American West and the California gold rush. Born in New York, Harte moved to California when he was seventeen and worked as a miner, messenger, and journalist. In 1868 he became editor of the Overland Monthly, a literary journal in which he published his most famous work, “The Luck of Roaring Camp.” In 1871 Harte returned east to further his writing career. He spent his later years as an American diplomat in Germany and Britain.

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      A Niece of Snapshot Harry’s - Bret Harte

      A NIECE OF SNAPSHOT HARRY’S

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      Bret Harte

      LASSO PRESS

      Thank you for reading. In the event that you appreciate this book, please consider sharing the good word(s) by leaving a review, or connect with the author.

      This book is a work of fiction; its contents are wholly imagined.

      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      Copyright © 2015 by Bret Harte

      Interior design by Pronoun

      Distribution by Pronoun

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Introduction

      A Niece Of Snapshot Harry’s

      I

      II

      III

      A Niece of Snapshot Harry’s

      By

      Bret Harte

      A Niece of Snapshot Harry’s

      Published by Lasso Press

      New York City, NY

      First published 1903

      Copyright © Lasso Press, 2015

      All rights reserved

      Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

      About Lasso Press

      Lasso Press brings the Wild West back to life with the greatest Western classics ever put to paper.

      INTRODUCTION

      ..................

      AMERICA HAS ALWAYS HAD A fascination with the Wild West, and schoolchildren grow up learning about famous Westerners like Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hicock, as well as the infamous shootout at O.K. Corral. Pioneering and cowboys and Indians have been just as popular in Hollywood, with Westerners helping turn John Wayne and Clint Eastwood into legends on the silver screen. HBO’s Deadwood, about the historical 19th century mining town on the frontier was popular last decade.

      Not surprisingly, a lot has been written about the west, and one of the best known writers about the west in the 19th century was Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902), who wrote poetry and short stories during his literary career. Harte was on the west coast by the 1860s, placing himself in perfect position to document and depict frontier life.

      A NIECE OF SNAPSHOT HARRY’S

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      I

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      THERE WAS A SLIGHT JARRING though the whole frame of the coach, a grinding and hissing from the brakes, and then a sudden jolt as the vehicle ran upon and recoiled from the taut pole-straps of the now arrested horses. The murmur of a voice in the road was heard, followed by the impatient accents of Yuba Bill, the driver.

      Wha-a-t? Speak up, can’t ye?

      Here the voice uttered something in a louder key, but equally unintelligible to the now interested and fully awakened passengers.

      One of them dropped the window nearest him and looked out. He could see the faint glistening of a rain-washed lantern near the wheelers’ heads, mingling with the stronger coach lights, and the glow of a distant open cabin door through the leaves and branches of the roadside. The sound of falling rain on the roof, a soft swaying of wind-tossed trees, and an impatient movement on the box-seat were all they heard. Then Yuba Bill’s voice rose again, apparently in answer to the other.

      Why, that’s half a mile away!

      Yes, but ye might have dropped onto it in the dark, and it’s all on the down grade, responded the strange voice more audibly.

      The passengers were now thoroughly aroused.

      What’s up, Ned? asked the one at the window of the nearest of two figures that had descended from the box.

      Tree fallen across the road, said Ned, the expressman, briefly.

      I don’t see no tree, responded the passenger, leaning out of the window towards the obscurity ahead.

      Now, that’s onfortnit! said Yuba Bill grimly; but ef any gentleman will only lend him an opery glass, mebbe he can see round the curve and over the other side o’ the hill where it is. Now, then, addressing the stranger with the lantern, bring along your axes, can’t ye?

      Here’s one, Bill, said an officious outside passenger, producing the instrument he had taken from its strap in the boot. It was the regulation axe, beautifully shaped, highly polished, and utterly ineffective, as Bill well knew.

      We ain’t cuttin’ no kindlin’s, he said scornfully; then he added brusquely to the stranger: Fetch out your biggest wood axe—you’ve got one, ye know—and look sharp.

      I don’t think Bill need be so d——d rough with the stranger, considering he’s saved the coach a very bad smash, suggested a reflective young journalist in the

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