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.
Depuis quelques instants, dans le silence absolu et l’obscurité profonde, la messagerie des Sierras gravissait la pente conduisant au sommet de la montagne. La masse opaque et confuse de la voiture, se balançant sans bruit sur ses ressorts, semblait glisser et monter comme si elle...
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