The Bell-Ringer of Angel's and Other Stories - Softcover

Harte, Bret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1421845075 ISBN 13: 9781421845074

Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2007

Synopsis

Where the North Fork of the Stanislaus River begins to lose its youthful grace, vigor, and agility, and broadens more maturely into the plain, there is a little promontory which at certain high stages of water lies like a small island in the stream. To the strongly-marked heroics of Sierran landscape it contrasts a singular, pastoral calm. White and gray mosses from the overhanging rocks and feathery alders trail their filaments in its slow current, and between the woodland openings there are glimpses of vivid velvet sward, even at times when the wild oats and "wire-grasses" of the plains are already yellowing. The placid river, unstained at this point by mining sluices or mill drift, runs clear under its contemplative shadows. Originally the camping-ground of a Digger Chief, it passed from his tenancy with the American rifle bullet that terminated his career. The pioneer who thus succeeded to its attractive calm gave way in turn to a well-directed shot from the revolver of a quartz-prospector, equally impressed with the charm of its restful tranquillity. How long he might have enjoyed its riparian seclusion is not known.

About this title

About the Author

Bret Harte (1836 1902) was an American writer whose western stories and poems launched the "local color" school in American fiction.

Edition details

• Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1421845075
• ISBN 13: 9781421845074
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: 1stworld Library