Bret Harte

Jimcin Recordings presents Three tales of Christmas. From the spirit of the holiday, warming the hearts of rugged miners to exalted "wise men" on a snowy journey to an incredible journey to Thompson Hall. We hope you enjoy this chronicle of the season.

A veritable library of listening in this splendid collection of American Short Stories! This boxed set includes all stories from Volumes 1, 2 and 3.

Fully restored and remastered, Heritage Media presents the greatest of vintage artists in classic dramas of the early America’s....

Echoes of the Frontier gathers thirteen unforgettable tales by literary giants such as Jack London, Willa Cather, Mark Twain, and Bret Harte—each story capturing a different facet of life at the edge of civilization.

Our ‘fight of flight’ response is something hardwired into the primitive part of our brain. In this volume people struggle valiantly to survive and to exist no matter the extent of the threat they face....

Art and life. Each the mirror of the other. This then is the classic definition of what ‘Realism’ as a writing form really is. Some might call it a fancy term for the mundane day to day pursuits but in the hands of an author it comes alive....

Loss in any form seems to burden us with more weight than anything that can possibly be gained or learnt from. The loss of a person, a loved one, is often overwhelming. It is a subject that authors return to again and again....

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....

A Chinese boy, an Indian and a wolf-like dog are outcasts, true friends and marvelous pranksters - in a town that's running out of patience....

The story of the siblings Maggie and Jim Culpepper who live in Dedlow Marsh. Close to their home is a fort with government soldiers, and one night, a deserter approaches Maggie asking for supplies....

"A Convert of the Mission" is about a California minister in need of rehabilitation to regain the health of his body and spirit. He follows the orders of his doctor to go somewhere and change his habits and way of life....

The Man of No Account is the story of a man from the East Coast whose failed California experiment gave him the title. He is returning home aboard a passenger steamer and is often the butt of jokes among the other passengers. Ultimately, the ship is lost at sea....

This short story by the great writer of Westerns is about a woman at home with her sick baby desperately waiting for her husband to return during a flood. The anxiety and tension builds as the mother feels increasingly isolated and afraid as the water levels rise....

Bret Harte (1836-1902) was an American writer and poet, most famous for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush....

From a master storyteller of the Wild West comes Chu Chu, a story about a horse with a fascinating personality who refuses to be tamed....

Daddy Downey and Mammy Downey were reputed to be already living at Rough-and-Ready when the first settlers arrived; they were considered saints and word of their great age and piety had spread far beyond the foothills, into The Union Ditch newspaper and beyond....

Bret Harte is best known for his stories of the pioneering days in California, so this humorous parody of English Gothic novels is a delightful departure....

Poker Flat is cleaning house. John Oakhurst is allowed to leave of his own accord along with a few others who didn’t quite match society’s ideals. Maybe they got off good....

Bret Harte paints a timeless portrait of undesirables who are forced to leave a self-righteous town, and who, in the face of oncoming winter and in the company of a pair of innocents, learn to become bigger than themselves....

If the legend were true then the "Yaller Dog" was able to effect change in people, mimic their transgressions, and knew the true value of politicians....