Product Review

BRET HARTE, STORIES OF THE EARLY WEST, by Bret Harte, Platt & Munk Great Writers Collection, 1964, Early Printing, Perhaps, First Thus. It has the price of $2.95 intact on the inside of the jacket. The dust jacket has been placed in an archival, clear, Mylar jacket for further protection. Bret Harte was the first important American writer to use the early western mining settlements, the colorful lives of prospectors, early ranchers and frontier women, and the stage coach and derringer in his stories. This varied selection includes: The Luck of Roaring Camp, Tennessee's Partner, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, A Yellow Dog, The Right Eye of the Commissioner, The Ingenue of the Sierras, Lanty Foster's Mistake, M'Liss: An Idyll of Red Mountain, and How Santa Claus came to Simpson's Bar.