Primary Works

Editor, beginning in 1868, of The Overland Monthly, San Francisco, in which he published the stories "The Luck of Roaring Camp" and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," and the poem "Plain Language from Truthful James" also known as "The Heather Chinee."

The writings of Bret Harte. Boston and NY Houghton, Mifflin & co. 1896-1904. PS1820 .E96a (19 volumes)

Tennessee's partner. San Francisco, NY, P. Elder and company 1907. Case PS1829 .T4

Stories and poems and other uncollected writings; compiled by Charles Meeker Kozlay. Boston, NY, Houghton Mifflin company, 1914. PS1822 .K6

The letters of Bret Harte, assembled and edited by Geoffrey Bret Harte. Boston and NY, Houghton Mifflin company, 1926. PS1833 .A5

Sketches of the sixties, by Bret Harte and Mark Twain pseud. being forgotten material now collected for the first time from the Californian, 1864 67. San Francisco, J. Howell, 1927. PS1821 .H6

San Francisco (from the sea) by Bret Harte. San Francisco, Calif. : The Kennedy Ten Bosch Co., 1927. Case PS1829 .S3

Tales of the gold rush, by Bret Harte, illus. by Fletcher Martin, with an introd. by Oscar Lewis.NY: Heritage P 1944. PS1824 .L5

Mliss, a story by Bret Harte is from "The Luck of Roaring Camp and other sketches" first published in 1870 and now reprinted in an edition of three hundred copies with initials & illustrations engraved by Mallette Dean. San Francisco, Grabhorn P, 1948. Case PS1829 .M519

San Francisco in 1866; being letters to the Springfield Republican, edited by George R. Stewart and Edwin S. Fussell. San Francisco, Book Club of California, 1951. Case F869.S3 H37

A millionaire of rough and ready. Kentfield, Calif. : The L D Allen P, 1955. Case PS1829 .M5

In a hollow of the hills. Upper Saddle River, N.J., Literature House 1969. PS1829 .I5

Gabriel Conroy. Upper Saddle River, N.J., Literature House 1970, 1875. PS1829 .G2

California Gold rush plays . edited with an introduction by Glenn Loney. NY : Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1983. PS632 .C3

Bret Harte's California: letters to the Springfield Republican and Christian register, 1866 67. edited and with an introduction by Gary Scharnhorst.Albuquerque : University of New Mexico P, 1990. F864 .H318

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Beasley, T. D. A tramp through the Bret Harte country . San Francisco: P. Elder and company 1914. F886 .B36

Brazil, John R. Literature, self, and society: the growth of a political aesthetic in early San Francisco. J. Brazil, 1975. PS285.S3 B72x

Duckett, Margaret. Mark Twain and Bret Harte. Norman: U of Oklahoma P 1964. PS1333 .D8

Merwin, Henry C . The life of Bret Harte, with some account of the California pioneers. Detroit, Gale Research Co., 1967. PS1833 .M4

Morrow, Patrick D. Bret Harte: Literary Critic. Bowling Green, OH: Popular, 1979.

O'Connor, Richard. Bret Harte; a biography. Boston: Little, Brown, 1966. PS1833 .O3

Scharnhorst, Gary. Bret Harte. NY: Twayne, 1992. PS1834 .S33

Stewart, George R. Bret Harte, argonaut and exile; being an account of the life of the celebrated American humorist, author of 'The luck of Roaring camp', 'Condensed novels', 'The heathen Chinee', 'Tales of the Argonauts', etc., etc. Port Washington, N.Y. Kennikat P, 1964. PS1833 .S7

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Barnett, Linda D. "Bret Harte: An Annotated Bibliography of Secondary Comment, 1870 1910. " American Literary Realism 5 (1972); 189-320.

---. "Bret Harte: An Annotated Bibliography of Secondary Comment Part Two: 1905 1971." American Literary Realism 5 (1972): 331-484.

---. Bret Harte: A Reference Guide. Boston: Hall, 1980.

Buckland, Roscoe L. "Jack Hamlin: Bret Harte's Romantic Rogue. " Western American Literature 8 (1973): 111-22.

Burton, Linda. "For Better or for Worse, Tennessee and His Partner: A New Approach to Bret Harte." Arizona Quarterly 36 (1980): 211-16.

Clark, Michael. "Bret Harte's 'The Outcasts of Poker Flat' and the Donner Pass Tragedy." Short Story 1.2 (1993): 49-56.

Conner, William F. "The Euchring of Tennessee: A Reexamination of Bret Harte's 'Tennessee's Partner'." Studies in Short Fiction 17 (1980); 113-20.

Glover, Donald E. "A Reconsideration of Bret Harte's Later Work." Western American Literature 8 (1973): 143-51.

Hudson, Roy F. "The Contributions of Bret Harte to American Oratory."Western American Literature 2 (1967); 213-222.

Hug, William J. "McTeague as Metafiction? Frank Norris' Parodies of Bret Harte and the Dime Novel." Western American Literature 26.3 (1991): 219-28.

May, Charles E. "Bret Harte's 'Tennessee's Partner': The Reader Euchred." South Dakota Review 15.1 (1977): 109-17.

McKeithan, D. M. "Bret Harte's Yuba Bill Meets The Ingenue." Mark Twain Journal 14.1 (1969): 1-7.

Morrow, Patrick. "The Predicament of Bret Harte." American Literary Realism 5 (1972): 181-88.

Morrow, Patrick D. "Bret Harte, Popular Fiction, and the Local Color Movement." Western American Literature 8 (1973): 123-31.

Morrow, Patrick D. " Bret Harte, Mark Twain, and the San Francisco Circle." A Literary History of the American West. Ed. Max Westbrook. Fort Worth: Texas Christian UP, 1987.

Scharnhorst, Gary. "Mark Twain, Bret Harte, and the Literary Construction of San Francisco." San Francisco in Fiction: Essays in a Regional Literature. Eds. David Fine and Paul Skenazy. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1995.

---. "'Ways That Are Dark': Appropriations of Bret Harte's 'Plain Language from Truthful James'." Nineteenth Century Literature 51.3 (1996): 377-99.

---. "Harte, Norris, and 'The Hero of Tomato Can'." Frank Norris Studies 15 (1993): 8-10.

---. "The Bret Harte-Mark Twain-Feud: An Inside Narrative." Mark Twain Journal 31.1 (Sprg 1993): 29-32.

---. "Whatever Happened to Bret Harte?" American Realism and the Canon. Eds. Tom Quirk and Gary Scharnhorst. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1994.

---, ed. Bret Harte's California: Letters to the Springfield Republican and Christian Register, 1866-67. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1990.

Scherting, Jack. "Bret Harte's Civil War Poems: Voice of the Majority." Western American Literature 8 (1973): 133-42.

Stevens, J. David. "'She war a woman': Family Roles, Gender, and Sexuality in Bret Harte's Western Fiction." American literature 69.3 (Sep 1997): 571-95.

Thomas, Jeffrey F. "Bret Harte and the Power of Sex." Western American Literature 8 (1973): 91-109.

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