Frontier Stories

Francis Bret Harte was born on August 25, 1836 in Albany New York. As a young boy Harte developed an early love of books and reading. He first published at the tender age of 11, a satirical poem titled ",Autumn Musings.", Expecting praise he encountered anything but and was later to write ",Such a shock was their ridicule to me that I wonder that I ever wrote another line of verse.", By age 13 his formal education was at an end and four years later, in 1853, the family moved to California. Here ...