Found Text | December 01, 1996
"My Luck, Just Now, Is Pretty Hard": Letters From Bret Harte, 1872-78
Gary Scharnhorst
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However modest his modern reputation, Bret Harte deserves to be resurrected from the footnote. As founding editor of the Overland Monthly in 1868, he was mentor to an entire generation of Western American writers, among them Samuel Clemens, Ambrose Bierce, Joaquin Miller and Ina Coolbrith.
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