Francis Bret Harte (1836 - 1902) was an American short-story writer, poet, and humorist. Best remembered for his stories fiction stories concerning the California Gold Rush, featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures. He helped create the American local-colour writing style, which attempted to better represent the particularities of a place and its inhabitants through elements such as dialect, landscape, and folklore. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction.
A l’endroit où la Sierra-Nevada commence à s’abaisser en ondulations plus douces, où les rivières deviennent moins rapides et moins jaunes, sur la pente d’une grande montagne rouge, se dresse « Smith’s Pocket » (la poche de Smith). Vues de la route rougeâtre au coucher du soleil,...
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