This book is illustrated. Bret Harte’s witty, sometimes heart-rending tales of frontier California, earned him acclaim during the 1860s as the new prophet of American letters. His books, The Luck of Roaring Camp , The Outcasts of Poker Flat and M'liss , helped establish the foundations of western American fiction. This selection of stories includes: A Protegee of Jack Hamlin’s ; An Ingenue of the Sierras ; The Reformation of James Reddy ; The Heir of the McHulishes ; An Episode of West Woodlands ; and The Home-Coming of Jim Wilkes . See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.