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 Heathen 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

Selected Letters of Bret Harte. Ed. Gary Sharnhorst. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1997.

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

The Old West in the Old World: Lost Plays by Bret Harte and Sam Davis. Berkove, Lawrence I. and Scharnhorst, Gary. eds. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 2006.

Selected Bibliography 1980-Present

Berkove, Lawrence I. The Old West in the Old World: Lost Plays by Bret Harte and Sam Davis. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 2006.

Crow, Charles L. ed. A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003.

Levin, Joanna. Bohemia in America, 1858-1920. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2010.

Mexcal, Stephen J. Reading for Liberalism: The Overland Monthly and the Writing of the Modern American West. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2013.

Nissen, Axel. Bret Harte: Prince and Pauper. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2000.

Packard, Chris. Queer Cowboys and Other Erotic Male Friendships in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Palmer, Stephanie C. Together by Accident: American Local Color Literature and the Middle Class. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2008.

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

Tinnemeyer, Andrea. "Testifying Bodies: Citizenship Debates in Bret Harte's Gabriel Conroy." in Goldstein, David S. and Thacker, Audrey B. eds. Complicating Constructions: Race, Ethnicity, and Hybridity in American Texts. Seattle: U of Washington P, 2007.

Winther, Per, Jakob Lothe, and Hans H. eds. The Art of Brevity: Excursions in Short Fiction Theory and Analysis. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2004.

MLA Style Citation of this Web Page

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