INDEX
INDEX
“Abner Nott,” [74], [321].
“Academy,” the London, on Bret Harte’s portrayal of gamblers, [173].
“Ah Sin,” a play by Bret Harte and Mark Twain, [234].
“Ailsa Callender,” [248], [269], [270], [299].
Alamo, [21].
Albany, birthplace of Bret Harte, [1];
Henry Hart’s occupations in, [11];
Young Men’s Association, [11];
[12];
lecture by Bret Harte in, [239].
Albany Female Academy, Henry Hart an instructor in, [11].
Alcaldes, the, duties of, [121];
decisions by, [123], [124], [125-126].
Alcott, Bronson, [12].
Alcott family, resemblance of the Harte family to, [12], [16].
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, [45].
“Alkali Dick,” [328].
Allen, Edward A., [326].
“Allow,” “’low,” in the sense of declare or say, [324].
“Alta California,” The, cited, [134], [140], [144], [148], [181], [185-186], [192], [193], [196], [204].
Alvarado, Spanish governor, [102].
American Humor, [244].
Angelus, The, [308].
Anthony, A. V. S., boy-neighbor of Bret Harte in Hudson Street, New York, [11-12];
after-meetings with in California and in London, [12];
recollections of California in the ’50s, [142].
Apostle of the Tules, An, [64], [206].
Archaic words in Bret Harte, [321], [324], [325].
Argonauts, [2], [60], [155], [218].
“Argonauts, The,” Bret Harte’s lecture on, [239], [259].
“Argonauts of California, The,” cited, [135], [168].
Argonauts of North Liberty, The, [77], [148], [215], [245], [287], [301].
Argyle, Duke of, [267], [268].
Arnold, Matthew, [83].
“Art Student,” [13].
Artemis in Sierra, [309].
“Arthur Poinsett,” [341].
Astor, John Jacob, [5].
Atchison, Bret Harte’s lecture in, [241].
“Atlantic Monthly,” the, Bret Harte’s first appearance in, [35], [47];
sale of in early California, [197];
[223];
Bret Harte’s contributions to, [232], [233], [245].
Autumnal Musings, [16].
“Baby Sylvester,” [156].
Bagby, George W., [327];
his “The Old Virginia Gentlemen and Other Sketches,” cited, [192 n.]
Baker’s City Tavern, New York, [5].
Ballad of the Emeu, [40].
Bancroft, H. H., his “Chronicles of the Builders,” cited, [167].
Barbour, Judge, [133].
Barker’s Luck, [295], [296].
Barnes, George, [39].
Barrett, Lawrence, [234].
Barry and Patten, their “Men and Memories of San Francisco,” cited, [198], [199].
Bates, Mrs. D. B., her “Incidents on Land and Water,” cited, [100], [128], [146].
Beauty, in women, its development, [79];
of Bret Harte’s women, [334], [335];
beauty in literary style, [338].
Beefsteak Club, London, [275].
Bell-Ringer of Angels, The, [56], [77], [152], [205].
Belle of Cañada City, A, [209].
“Bench and Bar of California,” cited, [128].
Benicia, [149], [198].
Besant, Walter, Bret Harte’s acquaintance with, [271].
Bierce, Ambrose, [51], [304].
“Biglow Papers,” [324].
Black, William, Bret Harte’s intimacy with, [271];
first meeting of the two, [271];
[272], [273].
Blondes, among Bret Harte’s women, [247].
“Blue-Grass Penelope, A,” [79].
Bohemian Days in San Francisco, [19], [115], [177].
Bohemian Papers, [44].
“Bookman, The,” [50 n.], [162].
Borthwick, J. D., his “Three Years in California,” cited, [22 n.], [94], [120].
Boston, [12];
Bret Harte in, [222], [223], [224], [229], [230], [231];
its characteristics, [229-230];
lecture by Bret Harte in, [239].
“Boston Daily Advertiser,” the, [223].
Bowers, Joe, [60], [61].
Bowles, Samuel, [236], [236 n.]
Boy gamblers, [154].
Boy’s Dog, A, [33].
Boyd, Mary Stuart, paper of, cited, [277].
“Bret Harte’s Country,” cited, [50 n.]
Bret Harte’s gamblers, [173].
Bret Harte’s women, [157].
See also [“Women.”]
Brett, Sir Balliol, later Viscount Esher, [8].
Brett, Catharine. See [Hart, Catharine (Brett)].
Brett, Catharyna (Rombout), grandmother of Catharine (Brett) Hart, [8];
estate of on the Hudson River, [9];
sketch of, [9];
a founder of the Fishkill Dutch Church, [9];
tablet to her memory, [9].
Brett, Francis, [9], [10].
Brett, Robert, [9], [10].
Brett, Roger, grandfather of Catharine (Brett) Hart, [8], [9].
Broderick, David C., [37];
duels of, [134], [136].
Brontë, Charlotte, [275].
Brooks, Noah, [41], [135], [214], [220], [236].
Broughton, Rhoda, her treatment of ministers, [210].
“Brown of Calaveras,” [77], [152], [177].
Browne, Francis F., editor of “Lakeside Monthly,” [221].
Brunettes, preferred by Bret Harte, [247].
Bryant, Edwin, his “California,” cited, [71].
Buckeye Hollow Inheritance, The, [248].
“Bucking Bob,” [96].
Bull-fights, [202], [204].
“Burgeoning,” [321].
Bushnell, the Rev. Dr., his “California: its Characteristics and Prospects,” cited, [127], [199], [200].
Byron, Lord, [275].
Cadet Grey, [308], [315].
“Cahoots,” [324].
“Calaveras Chronicle,” the, cited, [145];
editor of in a duel, [193].
California, at the outbreak of the Civil War, [36], [37], [38];
climate of, [100-106];
society of, [148], [149];
precocity of the early California boy, [154];
the gambling element in, [160-180];
lavish manner of transacting business in the early days, [181-184];
“trade a wild unorganized whirl,” [181];
soaring prices, [182-184];
“washerwomen made fortunes and founded families,” [184];
reaction in 1851, with quick fall in prices, [185];
losses by fire and flood, [186-187], [188-189];
first public building erected in, an Insane Asylum, [190];
life of the farm and the vineyard, [190];
dealt with in Bret Harte’s stories, [190];
literature, journalism, and religion of, [192-213];
newspaper men of, [192];
churches in, [200-202];
California children, [201];
Bret Harte’s representation of true, [288], [289], [291];
open-air life in, [317-319].
“California,” cited, [71].
“California: its Characteristics and Prospects,” cited, [200].
“California Christian Advocate,” the, [201], [203].
“California Farmer,” the, [191], [196].
“California Illustrated,” cited, [102].
“California Indoors and Out,” cited, [63], [93], [147].
“California Life,” cited, [145].
California newspapers, early. See [Newspapers].
“California Pet,” the, [141].
California pets, [155];
the bear cub “Baby Sylvester,” [156].
California pioneers. See [Pioneers].
California saloons, the bar surmounted by a woman’s sunbonnet, [142].
“California Song, The,” [61].
“Californian, The,” [39], [40], [44], [196].
“Californians, The,” cited, [85 n.], [96], [208 n.]
Camberley, Sussex, the Red House at, [274], [283].
Cambridge, Mass., Bret Harte in, [223], [224], [225], [226], [227];
[229], [232].
Canada, relatives of Bret Harte in, [4];
Bernard Hart in, [4].
Canadian Harts, the, [4].
Cape Horn, voyage around, [55], [65], [67], [143], [151], [181].
“Capital, The,” failure of, [251].
“Captain Carroll,” [178].
Captain Jim’s Friend, [161], [166].
Carquinez Woods, The, [148], [209], [302].
Casey, James, career and death of, [116], [117-118].
“Cass Beard,” [335].
Castle Ashby, [275].
“Cavortin’,” [324].
“Central America,” the, sinking of, [118].
Central California, [100], [101], [190].
Chaffee, J. A., the original of Tennessee’s Partner, [165-166].
Chagres, [65], [66].
Chamberlain, partner of Chaffee, the original of Tennessee’s Partner, [165].
Chapman, John Jay, [38].
Cheney, Warren, [327], [330].
“Cherokee Sal,” [162].
Chesterfield, Lord, his style, [331].
Chesterton, G. K., on Yuba Bill, [22-23];
[86], [87];
on Bret Harte’s humor, [22], [305];
on Colonel Starbottle, [176];
on Bret Harte’s parodies, [306].
Chicago, Bret Harte in, [220], [221], [222], [223];
lectures in, [244].
Children, Bret Harte’s, [26], [29];
his impression of English children, [29];
California children, [153-155], [201];
his impression of German children, [262], [263].
Chilenos, [148].
Chinese in California, [92].
Chinese restaurant, scene in, [108].
“Chronicles of the Builders,” cited, [167].
Churches in early California, [200-202].
Cicely, [304-305].
“Circuit-Rider, The,” cited, [59].
Civil War, California’s part in, [37], [38];
Bret Harte’s poems relating to, [38], [314].
Clarence, [37], [296].
Clemens, Samuel L. See [Mark Twain].
Clemens, Will. M., [50 n.]
“Clementina,” [79].
Climate of California, [100-106], [317].
Clubs, London, to which Bret Harte belonged, [275].
Cohasset, Mass., Bret Harte in, [234].
Colfax, Schuyler, [8].
Collins, Col. Arthur, [278 n.]
Coloma, traits of gamblers of, [169].
“Colonel Newcome,” [18].
“Colonel Starbottle,” [22], [83], [135-139], [176], [192];
reintroduced in Bret Harte’s last, unfinished tale, [283];
[337].
“Colonel Wilson,” [95].
Colton, the Rev. William, his “Three Years in California,” cited, [58], [96], [122], [188], [203];
conductor of first newspaper in California, [196 n.]
Commercial agent, Bret Harte as, at Crefeld, [252], [261-262].
Compton Wyngates, [275].
“Concepcion,” [105], [149].
Conception de Arguello, [149], [232], [308].
Concord, Mass., [227].
Condensed Novels, the, [33], [40], [44], [306].
Congregation Shearith Israel, New York, [6].
“Consuelo,” [148].
Consul, Bret Harte as, at Glasgow, [267-273];
the consul in Bret Harte’s stories, [297].
Contraltos, preferred by Bret Harte, [247].
Convalescence of Jack Hamlin, The, [177].
Convicts, English, [117], [129].
Conway, Moncure, on Bret Harte’s avoidance of “social duties,” [276].
Coolbrith, Miss Ina B., [49].
Cornbury, Lord, [8].
Coullard, Mrs., for whom Marysville was named, [142].
Cramblet, Thomas E., [326].
Crefeld, [252];
Bret Harte at, [252-256], [260-265].
“Cressy,” [26], [28], [78], [82], [83], [247], [294], [324].
Crime in California, increase in, [129], [130].
“Critic, The,” [87].
Crossfield, R. H., [326].
Cruces, [65], [66].
Crusade of the Excelsior, the, [17], [212].
“Culpeper Starbottle,” the nephew, [94].
Dana, Charles A., [252].
Del Norte, [21].
Delano, A., his “Life on the Plains,” cited, [185].
Demi-monde in San Francisco, [99].
Denny, G. H., [326].
Desborough Connections, The, [275].
Devil’s Ford, [62], [217].
Dialect, Bret Harte’s dialect poems, [310];
his Pioneer and other dialect, [321-329];
masters of, [328];
humor essential to, [328];
psychology of, [329].
Dick Boyle’s Business Card, [249].
“Dick Demorest,” [287].
Dickens, Charles, his influence on Bret Harte, [177], [284], [286], [339-342];
his letter to Bret Harte, [312 n.];
Bret Harte’s poem on, [312];
compared with Bret Harte, [342], [343].
Dogs, as beasts of burden, [263-264];
Bret Harte’s tenderness for, [287].
“Don José Sepulvida,” [94], [96], [177], [211].
Donner Party, the, [72], [142].
“Doña Rosita,” [148].
Douglas, James, [50], [162-165], [309].
Dow’s Flat, [309-310].
Downieville, [164].
“Dr. Ruysdael,” [82].
Drake, Sir Francis, [150].
Drake’s Bay, [150].
Drama, the, in Pioneer California, [198].
“Drum, The,” [38].
Dubois, Miss, [10].
Duels, [132], [133], [134], [192], [193].
Dumb animals, in Pioneer California, [99], [155];
Bret Harte’s tenderness for, [287].
Earthquake in San Francisco, [216].
Editors, in Pioneer California, Southern origin of, [192], [193].
Education in Pioneer California, [197], [198], [200].
“Edward Brice,” [345].
“Edward Everett,” ship, [55].
Eggleston, Edward, his “The Circuit-Rider,” cited, [59].
“El Dorado,” cited, [64].
El Dorado County, vineyards in, [190].
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, [38],
[139];
Bret Harte’s meeting with, [227].
“Emerson in Concord,” cited, [139].
England, [1], [2];
Bret Harte’s lectures in, [244], [244 n.], [259];
publication of his stories in, [259];
visiting country houses in, [266];
his last years in, [274-284].
English, the, in Pioneer California, [92].
English children, [29].
English convicts, [92].
“Enriquez Saltello,” [148], [298], [328].
Episcopalianism in early San Francisco, [201].
Episode of Fiddletown, An, paralleled in contemporary newspapers, [192];
[342].
“Episode of West Woodlands,” the, [209].
“Esquire,” the use of, in Pioneer California, [193];
Bret Harte’s humorous examples of, [193].
Eureka, [30].
Everett, Edward, [55].
Expulsion of Mexicans and South Americans, [131].
Eye-lashes, and Eye-brows, Bret Harte’s description of, [334], [335].
“Ezekiel Corwin,” [215], [301].
Fair, James G., [167].
Fairfax, Charles, heroism of, [119];
[119 n.]
“Far,” in the sense of distant, [321].
Farnham, Eliza W., her “California Indoors and Out,” cited, [63], [93], [147].
“Father Felipe,” [211].
“Father Pedro,” [105].
“Father Sobriente,” [211].
“Father Wynn,” [209].
Feather River, [103], [189].
“Fetched away,” for torn, [323].
Field, Stephen J., [107];
his “Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California,” cited, [107], [121], [122], [127], [132];
first Alcalde of Marysville, [121];
[122];
his duelling experience, [133];
his experience with Terry, [136];
at the beginning of Marysville, [141], [185].
Fields, James T., [47].
Firearms, carrying of, [132], [133].
First Family of Tasajara, A, [27], [79 n.], [249], [321].
Fisher, W. M., his “The Californians,” cited, [85 n.], [96], [208 n.]
Fishkill Dutch Church, [9].
“Flora Dimwood,” [335], [345].
Foot-Hills, [94], [100], [101];
foxes and raccoons from the, as pets, [155];
[190].
Fort Hall, [68].
“Forty-Niner,” definition of, [54], [54 n.]
See also [Pioneers].
Fowke, Gerard, [326].
Francis, Miss Susan M., [47].
Franklin, Benjamin, his style, [331].
Frémont, Mrs. Jessie Benton, [34], [35].
Frémont, John C., [34], [57], [58].
French, the, in California, [92].
Friary, The, club, New York, [5].
Friend of Colonel Starbottle’s, A, Bret Harte’s last MS., [283-284].
Frontiersmen, the, [56].
See also [Pioneers].
Frothingham, the Rev. O. B., [207].
Froude, James Anthony, his daughter, [29];
Bret Harte’s visit to, [257], [258].
“Fust-rate,” for very well, [322].
“Gabriel Conroy,” [22], [72], [103], [177], [234], [244], [245], [294], [330], [341].
“Gait,” in the sense of habit or manner, [325].
Gamblers, boy gamblers, [154];
Bret Harte’s gamblers, [173].
See also [Gambling in California].
Gambling in California, [19], [20], [160-180];
Bret Harte’s pictures of and contemporary accounts, [168-169];
the gambling era in Sacramento, [170], [172];
in San Francisco, [170-172];
development of public opinion and laws against, [172].
George Eliot, [208].
German children, [262], [263].
Ghosts, The, of Stukeley Castle, [275].
“Gideon Deane,” [210], [211].
Gillis, James W., [50], [51].
See also [“Truthful James.”]
Glasgow, Bret Harte appointed consul at, [265];
his five years in, [266-273];
his reports, [267-268];
his friendships in [271];
departure from, [273].
Goddess of Excelsior, The, [142].
Godkin, E. L., [307].
Golden canoe, the, [159].
“Golden Era,” the, [13], [32], [33].
Grandmother Tenterden, [232].
Grass Valley, [164].
“Gratuitous,” [339].
“Greasers,” [148].
Great Deadwood Mystery, The, [231].
Greeley, Horace, his “Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco,” cited, [153].
Grey, William, his “Pioneer Times in California,” cited, [55], [109], [126], [129].
Greyport Legend, A, [232], [233].
Griswold, Miss Anna, her marriage to Bret Harte, [33].
Griswold, Daniel S., [33].
Griswold, Mary Dunham, [33].
Gwinn, W. M., [36], [37].
Hardy, Thomas, [76], [77], [208], [320].
Hare, John, [235].
“Harper’s Magazine,” [277].
Hart, Benjamin I., [6].
Hart, Bernard, paternal grandfather of Bret Harte, [4-7];
career of, [4-6];
secretary to the New York Exchange Board, [5];
prominent in the Synagogue, [5], [6];
in the militia, [5];
member of clubs and societies, [5];
homes of [6], [7];
portrait of, [6];
marriage of, to Catharine Brett, [6];
marriage of, to Zipporah Seixas, [6];
family of, [6-7];
death of, [7];
[10], [13].
Hart, Catharine (Brett), paternal grandmother of Bret Harte, [6];
marriage of, to Bernard Hart, [6];
the marriage kept a secret by Bernard Hart, [7];
her lonely and secluded life, [8];
her ancestry and family connections, [8-10].
Hart, Daniel, [6].
Hart, David, [6].
Hart, Elizabeth Rebecca (Ostrander), mother of Bret Harte, [10];
her religious faith, [11], [12];
life of, after Henry Hart’s death, [13];
her passion for literature, [16];
moves to California, [17];
death of, at Morristown, N. J., [19];
[233].
Hart, Emanuel B., [6].
Hart [Harte], Henry, father of Bret Harte, [1];
final e added to name of, [1 n.];
birth of, [6];
[7];
at Union College, [10], [18];
description of, [10];
career of, [10], [11];
marries Elizabeth Ostrander, [10];
[11];
homes of, in New York City, [11];
brought up in the Dutch Reformed faith, becomes a Catholic, [11];
principal of an academy in Hudson, N. Y., [12];
other places of residence, [11];
ardently espouses the cause of Henry Clay, [12];
death of, [12];
his library and its use by his household, [16];
[230].
Hart, Henry, son of Bernard Hart by his Hebrew wife, [7].
Hart, Theodore, [6].
Hart, Zipporah (Seixas), Hebrew wife of Bernard Hart, [6];
her marriage and family, [6];
[7].
Harts, the, in Canada, [4].
Harte, Francis Brett, birthplace of, [1];
ancestry of, [1], [4];
father of, [1], [6];
evolution of his signature as an author, [1];
descriptions of, [1-3], [4];
his voice, [2];
his handwriting, [2];
pictures of, [3];
paternal grandfather of, [4-7];
numerous relatives of, in Canada, [4];
mother of, [10-11], [16], [17], [19];
boyhood homes of, in New York City, [11];
in various places, [12], [13];
boyhood life after his father’s death, [13];
his precocity, [15];
his early studies and writings, [16];
arrival in California, [17], [18];
begins his career as a professional writer, [18];
gambling experience, [19];
as express messenger, [21];
as tutor and schoolmaster, [21], [24], [26];
as druggist’s clerk, [24], [25];
as printer, [24], [30], [32];
as editor, [30], [31], [48];
appointed secretary of the Mint, [33];
marriage, [33];
his manner of working, [40-42];
editor of book of poems, [40-42];
his first published book, [44];
first editor of the “Overland Monthly,” [45];
the publication that first made him known on the Atlantic coast, [46-47];
his Heathen Chinee makes him famous, [49-50];
professor in the University of California, [51];
accuracy of his account of Pioneer life, [53-54], [56], [149], [150], [155], [189], [192];
fidelity of his pictures of Pioneer friendship, [157];
four stories devoted to friendship, [161-167];
moral of his stories, [167];
his portrayal of gambling in Pioneer California sustained by contemporary accounts, [168];
his gamblers, a new type in fiction, [176];
John Oakhurst and Jack Hamlin compared, [174-177];
his attitude toward his characters, [178];
his religious views, [206], [207];
departure from California, [214], [217], [218], [219];
in Chicago, [220-222];
his Eastern reception, [222];
visit to Boston and Mr. Howells, [223-227], [229];
meeting with Lowell, [226-227],
with Longfellow, [227],
with Emerson, [227];
in Boston, [229-231];
his contract with James R. Osgood & Co., [232];
at Newport, [232];
his literary habits, [233];
as a playwright, [234-235];
his money troubles, [236], [237], [238], [240], [251];
his lectures, [238], [239], [244];
his letters to his wife, [239-244], [251], [253], [254], [256], [258];
impression of Western people, [243];
his health, [244], [259], [260];
his dislike of New England, [246];
his women characters, [247-250];
his patriotism, [249];
appointed U. S. commercial agent at Crefeld, [252];
translations of his works, [255], [256];
his impressions of German music and acting, [257];
visit to Froude, [258];
his lectures in England, [259];
publication of his stories in England, [259];
as commercial agent, [261], [262], [264];
impressions of German children, [262], [263];
as consul, [266], [267], [268], [269], [271], [272];
in Glasgow, [266-273];
his reports, [267];
causes the erection of a memorial over the graves of wrecked sailors, [268];
glimpse of his consular functions given in Young Robin Gray, [269];
his stories dealing with Scotch scenes and people, [270];
his friendships with William Black and Walter Besant, [271];
his monomania for not answering letters, [272];
granted leave of absence, [273];
superseded in the Glasgow consulship, [273];
last years in London, [274-292];
his friendship with M. and Mme. Van de Velde, [274];
Mme. Velde’s influence upon his work, [274];
his later rooms at No. 74 Lancaster Gate, [274];
membership in various London clubs, [275];
his habits in later life, [275];
his real recreations, [275];
his proneness to escape “social duties,” [276], [277];
visits Switzerland, [277-278];
reasons that impelled him to live in England, [279-280];
yet ever a devoted American, [281];
false reports about him circulated in America, [282];
his disinclination to be “interviewed,” [282];
his character, [284-292];
was he a sentimentalist? [284-286];
his separation from his family in his latter years, [284];
at work until the end, [283];
his last MS., [283];
his last illness, [283];
his last letters, [284];
death, at Camberley, May 5th, 1902, [284];
his faults and his good qualities, [287], [290];
his devotion to his art, [291];
the manner of man he was, [291], [312], [320];
as a writer of fiction, [293-307];
his knowledge of human nature, [297];
his dialect, [298];
his humor, [300];
his satire, [300-302];
his optimism, [307], [316];
his poetry, [308-316];
his poem on Dickens, [312], [316];
influence of Dickens on him, [340-342];
compared with Dickens, [342-343];
his poem on Starr King, [313];
his patriotic poems, [314-316];
his treatment of nature, [316-319];
his style, [309], [330-346];
his style in poetry, [309], [313], [337-338];
defects of his style, [330], [336], [339];
virtues of his style, [331], [333-338], [343-346];
his vocabulary, [337-338];
his attitude toward his characters, [345], [346].
Harte, Mrs. Francis Brett, her marriage, [33];
her voice, [247];
removes to England before Bret Harte’s death, [279].
Harte, Eliza. See [Knaufft, Eliza (Harte)].
Harte, Ethel, Bret Harte’s younger daughter, [279].
Harte, Francis King, Bret Harte’s second son, [39], [279].
Harte, Griswold, Bret Harte’s elder son, [279].
Harte, Henry, Bret Harte’s brother, [13-15], [17].
Harte, Jessamy. See [Steele, Jessamy (Harte)].
Harte, Margaret B. See [Wyman, Margaret B. (Harte)].
Haskins, C. W., his “The Argonauts of California,” cited, [135], [168].
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, [1], [83], [208], [244], [245], [268], [276], [295], [342].
Hawthorne and Bret Harte compared, [281], [291].
Hay, John, [60], [287].
Hayes, President, appoints Bret Harte as U. S. commercial agent at Crefeld, [252].
Heathen Chinee, The, [44], [49], [50], [50 n.], [51], [222], [300], [309].
Heir, The, of the McHulishes, [250], [270].
“Heiress of Red Dog,” the, [177].
“Helen Maynard,” [332].
Helper, H. R., his “The Land of Gold,” cited, [150].
“Herbert Bly,” [337].
Herndon, James Lewis, [118 n.]
Heroines, Bret Harte’s, [74-84], [246-249], [334].
Hinds, J. I. D., [326].
Hittell’s “History of California,” cited, [54].
Hoar, Sherman, his resemblance to the hero in Left Out on Lone Star Mountain, [167 n.]
“Honeyfoglin’,” [321].
“Honorable Jackson Flash, The,”
[192].
Hoodlum, [155].
Hooper, J. F., [114].
Horses, in San Francisco, [99];
Bret Harte’s description of, [333].
House of Lords, The, club, New York, [5].
How I Went to the Mines, [25].
How Old Man Plunkett went Home, [113].
How Reuben Allen Saw Life in San Francisco, [24].
How Santa Claus Came to Simpson’s Bar, [27], [154], [232], [233], [302], [305], [333].
Howells, William Dean, his account of Bret Harte, [2], [30], [39], [41], [223-227];
[229], [237-238], [290].
Hudson, N. Y., home of the Hartes in, [11].
Hudson River, The, [16].
Humboldt Bay, [21].
Humboldt County, [21], [30];
wheat crops, [190].
Humboldt River, [68], [146 n.]
“Humboldt Times,” [24].
Humor and pathos, [300];
California humor, [303], [304];
Western and New England humor, [303].
Hyer, Tom, [110].
Idyl of Battle Hollow, The, [232].
Idyl of Red Gulch, The, [234], [246].
Iliad of Sandy Bar, The, [209].
“Illustrated News,” London, sale of, in Pioneer California, [197].
Imagination, creative, [293], [294].
In a Balcony, [33].
In the Tules, [63], [161], [166], [188].
“Incidents on Land and Water,” cited, [100], [128].
Independence, in Missouri, [68].
Indians, [30], [56], [70], [72];
Bret Harte’s description of, [73];
the Californian, [30], [105], [212-213].
Indiscretion of Elsbeth, The, [262].
Insane Asylum, an, the first public building erected by the State of California, [190].
“Into,” for in, [323].
Irving, Washington, [35].
“J. W.,” “Perils, Pastimes and Pleasures of an Emigrant,” by, cited, [92].
“Jack Fleming,” [158].
“Jack Hamlin,” [22], [83];
his dress, [97];
[99];
[169], [173], [175];
compared with “John Oakhurst,” [176-177];
his prototype, [177];
his character, [178-180].
Jack and Jill of the Sierras, A, [81], [217].
Jackass Flat, [50].
James, Henry, [3], [163];
his style, [336].
“James Seabright,” [209].
Jeff Briggs’s Love Story, [249].
Jeffries, Richard, [319].
Jewelry, miners’, [97].
Jewett, Sarah O., [83].
Jews in Pioneer California, [92].
Jim, [322].
Jimmy’s Big Brother from California, [113].
“Jinny,” [78].
“Joan,” [77], [245], [246], [301].
“Joe Corbin,” [337].
“John Ashe,” [81].
“John Bunyan Medliker,” [27].
“John Hale,” [230].
“John Milton Harcourt,” [27].
“John Oakhurst, Mr.,” [86], [173], [174];
compared with “Jack Hamlin,” [176];
[300], [304], [318].
“Johnny,” [302].
Johnson, Samuel, [336].
Johnson’s Old Woman, [321], [322], [332].
Johnston, Richard Malcolm, [325], [326].
“Joshua Rylands,” [58], [205].
“Jovita,” [333-334].
Jowett, Benjamin, [207].
Judgment of Bolinas Plain, The, [235].
“Julia Cantire,” [249].
“Julia Porter,” [334], [335].
Jury, the first in California, [122].
“Kam,” [83].
Kansas, Bret Harte’s lectures in, [241], [242], [243].
Kay, T. Belcher, [111].
Kemble, Fanny, her description of Bret Harte, [1];
[2], [221 n.]
“Kicked a fut,” [325].
King, James, career and tragic death of, [116-117], [186], [195].
King, the Rev. Thomas Starr, [33], [34], [35-36], [38], [39], [207];
Bret Harte’s poem upon him, [313], [314].
Kingston-on-the-Hudson, [10].
Kinsmen Club, London, [275].
Kipling, Rudyard, [55], [107 n.], [208], [342], [344].
“Kitty,” [78].
Knaufft, Eliza (Harte), Bret Harte’s sister, [13], [17], [222], [232].
Knaufft, Ernest, [13].
Knaufft, F. F., [13].
Kozlay, Charles M., publisher of Bret Harte’s lectures, [244 n.]
“Lacy Bassett,” [166].
“Lakeside Monthly,” the, Bret Harte’s connection with, [220], [221], [222].
“Land of Gold, The,” cited, [150].
“Lanty Foster,” [74], [81].
“Larry Hawkins,” [95].
Lawrence, Ks., Bret Harte’s lecture in, [241], [242].
Lawyer, the Boston, [231].
Lectures, by Bret Harte, [238], [239-244];
edited by Kozlay, [244 n.];
in England, [259].
Leese, Jacob P., [149].
Left Out on Lone Star Mountain, [160], [166].
Legend of Monte del Diablo, The, [35].
Legend of Sammtstadt, A, [262].
Leighton, Sir Frederic, [260].
Lenox, Mass., [1];
Bret Harte’s stay there, [244].
“Leonidas Boone,” [27].
Letters by Bret Harte, to his wife, [239-244], [251], [253], [254], [256], [258];
letter to his son, [256];
to Mr. Pemberton, [267];
from Switzerland, [277].
Letts, J. M., his “California Illustrated,” cited, [102].
Lewis, Alfred Henry, [327].
“Liberty Jones,” [25], [82], [146], [147].
“Life on the Plains,” cited, [185].
Lipper, Arthur & Co., New York, [6].
Lispenard, Leonard, [5].
Lispenard & Hart, merchants, in New York, [5].
“Literary Friends and Acquaintances,” cited, [223].
“Literary Landmarks of Boston,” cited, [231].
Literature among the Pioneers, [196], [197], [198], [200].
London, Bret Harte in. See [England].
Longevity, of Spanish Californians, [104];
of Indians, [105].
Longfellow, H. W., Bret Harte’s meeting with, [227-228];
Bret Harte’s opinion of, [228], [229].
Los Angeles, [149].
“Los Gringos,” cited, [150].
Lost Galleon, The, and Other Tales, [44].
Louisburg Square, in Boston, [231].
Love, for women, [78], [311], [312].
“’Low,” in the sense of declare or say, [324].
Lowell, James Russell, [223], [227], [324].
Lowell, Mass., home of the Hartes in, [12].
Lower California, [67].
Luck of Roaring Camp, The, [44], [46], [47], [49], [51], [159], [162], [165], [233].
Macaulay, his style, [331], [336].
McDougall, ex-governor, duel with a San Francisco editor, [193].
McGlynn, John A., [88], [89].
McGowan, “Ned,” [90].
McPike, Capt., [60].
“Madison Wayne,” [56], [205].
Mæcenas of the Pacific Slope, A, [249].
Magee, Prof., [165].
Magistrates, California, [122-127].
“Major Philip Ostrander,” [11].
“Mannerly,” [321].
Mark Twain, Bret Harte’s first meeting with, [39], [40];
[45], [46], [51], [229], [234], [304], [306], [327].
“Martin Morse,” [188], [189].
“Maruja,” [149], [178], [338].
Marysville, Alcalde of, [121], [122], [185];
origin of name of, [142];
[146], [153];
gambling in, [173].
“Marysville Times, The,” [192].
“Men and Memories of San Francisco,” cited, [199 n.]
Mercury of the Foot-Hills, A, [27], [77].
Mermaid of Light-House Point, The, [150].
Mexicans, expulsion from the mines, [131].
Mexican and Chilean women in early California, [148].
“Miggles,” [77], [163], [330], [339].
Mill, John Stuart, his style, [331].
Miller, Henry, [106].
Miners, the, [85];
their gains, [112], [113];
their laws, [120], [121];
the miners of Roaring Camp, [163].
See also [Pioneers].
Mining, primitive methods of, [158-160].
See [Pan-mining]; [Rocker, the]; [Sluce, the]; [River-bed mining].
Mining laws, [120], [121].
Ministers, in Pioneer California, [208], [302];
Bret Harte’s ministers, [208-212], [302].
Mint, the U. S., California, Bret Harte as secretary of, [33];
[34], [42], [52], [292].
“Miss Edith,” [310].
“Miss Jo,” [95].
“Miss Mary,” [246], [247].
Missions, the Spanish, [212], [213].
Missouri, its emigrants to California, [59], [63], [64].
“M’liss,” [33], [163], [208], [234], [269], [296].
Montague, Henry W., [288].
Monterey, [54], [149], [166], [187], [195].
Monterey County, the sheep county, [190].
Montreal, Bret Harte at, [240], [241].
Morristown, N. J., [19];
Bret Harte at, [233], [234], [237].
“Mr. Adams Rightbody,” [231].
“Mr. Callender,” [299], [328].
Mr. Jack Hamlin’s Mediation, [205].
“Mr. John Oakhurst.” See [“John Oakhurst”].
“Mr. McKinstry,” [83].
Mr. Thompson’s Prodigal, [326].
“Mrs. Brimmer,” [335].
Mrs. Bunker’s Conspiracy, [37].
“Mrs. Burroughs,” [77].
“Mrs. Decker,” [77], [175].
“Mrs. MacGlowrie,” [80], [248].
“Mrs. McKinstry,” [83], [84].
Mrs. Skaggs’s Husbands, [233].
Mulford, Prentice, [39].
Murders, frequency of, [130-131].
Murdock, Charles A., [30].
My First Book, [42].
My Friend the Tramp, [230].
Nadal, E. S., [341].
Nature, as treated by Bret Harte, [27], [316-319];
influence of, [80], [318].
Neighborhoods I have Moved From, [40].
Nevada County, vineyards in, [190].
New Assistant of Pine Clearing School, The, [62].
New Brunswick, N. J., home of the Hartes in, [12].
New England, [245], [246];
its humor, [303].
New London, Conn., Bret Harte at, [234].
New Orleans, ship-load of gamblers from, arrive in California, [168].
New York City, Bernard Hart in, [4-6];
the Congregation Shearith Israel in, [6];
homes of Bernard Hart in, [6];
sons of in, [6], [7];
[9];
boyhood home of Bret Harte, [11];
Bret Harte in, [222], [232];
lectures in, [239], [244].
New York State, [1], [10].
New York Stock Exchange Board, Bernard Hart secretary to, [5], [7].
“New York Sunday Atlas,” [16].
New York “Tribune,” [222].
Newport, R. I., Bret Harte in, [232].
Newport Romance, A, [232], [233].
“News Letter,” the, [51], [51 n.]
Newspapers, the first in California, [91], [195];
editors of the early, [134], [192], [193], [194];
tone of, [194], [195], [196].
See under their respective titles.
Newstead Abbey, Bret Harte a guest at, [275].
Nicaragua, [17], [65].
Nicasio Indians, the, [150].
Nichols, Jonathan, [61].
“Nigh onter,” for nearly, [323].
Night at Hays’, A, [206].
Night on the Divide, A, [97], [103], [249].
“No-account,” [322].
“North Liberty,” [245], [246].
“Northern California,” the, [30].
“Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith, The,” [236].
Oakland, Cal., [18], [19], [165].
Oatman, Olive, [73].
Office-Seeker, The, [245].
“Old Greenwood,” [56], [57], [58].
“Old Personal Responsibility,” [137].
“Old Virginia Gentlemen, The, and Other Sketches,” cited, [192 n.]
“Old woman,” for wife, [322].
Oregon, [68].
“Oregon and California in 1848,” cited, [72].
Oregon Trail, [68].
“Ornery,” [322].
Osgood, James R., [231];
contract with Bret Harte, [232].
Ostrander, Elizabeth Rebecca. See [Hart, Elizabeth Rebecca].
Ostrander, Henry Philip, [10].
Ostranders, home of, in New York, [11], [13].
Ottawa, Bret Harte’s lecture and stay there, [240].
“Our Italy,” cited, [104].
Outcasts of Poker Flat, The, [48], [103], [162], [163], [165], [174], [233], [300], [317].
“Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco,” cited, [153].
“Overland Monthly,” the, [44], [46];
Bret Harte its first editor, [45], [48], [49], [51], [52];
its bear, [45];
[215], [216], [275], [292], [312 n.], [327].
Oxford School of writers, [336].
Padre Esteban, [212].
Pan-mining, [158-159].
Panama, [65], [66], [67].
“Pard,” [158].
Parody in Bret Harte, [306].
Parsloe, C. T., [234].
“Parson Wynn,” [302].
Passage in the Life of Mr. John Oakhurst, A, [174], [175].
Pathos, [302].
Peg-Leg Smith, [57].
Pell, Mr., merchant, New York, [5].
Pemberton, T. Edgar, on Bret Harte, [220], [229];
his account of Bret Harte as a playwright, [234], [235];
letter of Bret Harte to him, [267];
collaborates with, as a dramatist, [286].
Pemberton’s “Life of Bret Harte,” extracts from, [24], [29], [103], [228], [229], [239-244], [251], [253], [266], [275-276], [283], [291].
“Pendennis,” [293].
“Perils, Pastimes and Pleasures of an Emigrant,” cited, [92].
“Personal Adventures in Upper and Lower California,” cited, [209].
“Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California,” cited, [107], [121], [122], [127], [132].
“Peter Schroeder,” [298], [328].
Philadelphia, home of the Hartes in, [12].
“Philandering,” [321].
Phyllis of the Sierras, A, [27], [28], [317], [341].
Piatt, John J., [251].
“Picayune,” The, editor of in a duel, [193].
Pike, Lieut. Zebulon M., [59].
Pike County, “Piker,” [59], [60], [62-64].
“Pike County Ballads,” [60].
“Pioneer Times in California,” cited, [55], [109], [126], [129].
Pioneers, the, [30], [47], [52], [54-213];
their youthfulness, [54];
their good looks, [55];
their intelligence, [55];
their descendants, [55 n.];
their sufferings en route, [65];
crossing the Plains, [65], [68-71];
by sea, [66-68];
their food, [69];
their quarrels, [71], [72];
their women and children, [74-84], [78], [140-151];
varied employments of, [86-89];
multiplicity of tongues among, [91];
dress of, [97-98];
energy of, [105];
exuberance of, [106-109];
misfortunes of, [111-113];
courage of, [114-119];
law-abidingness, [120-121];
magnanimity, [127], [129];
long beards of, [145];
friendships among, [157-167];
good manners common among, [173-174];
literature among, [196-197];
good taste of, [199];
their humor, [303], [304];
their dialect, [323-324].
Pioneer women, [74-84];
beauty in, [79];
small feet of, [248].
Pittsburgh, Bret Harte’s lecture in, [240].
Placerville, [111], [123], [146].
Plain Language from Truthful James, [49].
Plains, The, crossing them, [56], [60], [65], [68], [69], [70], [71], [72], [167];
a heroine of, [145];
effect of the long journey upon women, [146], [147];
wolves from the, as pets, [155].
Poet of Sierra Flat, The, [232].
Poker Flat, [103], [164], [176].
Poor Man’s Creek, [164].
Prairie schooners, [70].
Prepositions, superfluous, [323].
Priests, the Spanish, [211], [213].
Princess Bob and Her Friends, The, [232], [249].
Prize-fights, and prize-fighters, [194].
Providence, R. I., home of the Hartes in, [12].
Publishers, Bret Harte’s relations with, [232].
“Punch,” [197].
Puritanism in California, [202], [203].
“Put to,” for harness, [324].
Rabelais Club, London, [275].
Rain, fall of, [103].
Rainy season, [102], [103].
“R’ar,” [322].
Reform Club, London, [271], [272].
Reid, Sir Wemyss, [271];
references to Bret Harte in his life of William Black, [271], [272].
Reincarnation, The, of Smith, [188].
Relieving Guard, [39], [313].
Religion among the Pioneers, [200-202], [204], [205-206], [208].
Return of Belisarius, The, [46 n.]
Returned, [46], [46 n.]
“Rev. Mr. Daws, the,” [209].
Reveille, The, [38], [39], [314].
“Richelieu Sharpe,” [27], [28], [29];
the precocious love affairs of, [154].
“Ridgway Dent,” [81].
River-bed mining, [160-161].
“Rise,” for ascend, [324].
Road-agents, [22].
Robson, Stuart, [234].
Rocker, or cradle, the, in mining, [159].
Roger Catron’s Friend, [208].
Rogue River, [30].
Roman, Anton, [44], [45], [215].
Romance of Madroño Hollow, The, [95], [232].
Rombout, Francis, [8], [9].
Rombout, Helena (Teller), [8].
Rombout-Brett Association, [9].
Rose of Glenbogie, A, [250], [270], [297].
“Rose of Tuolumne,” the, [78], [247], [300], [317].
“Rosey Nott,” [74].
“Rowley Meade,” [324].
Royal Academy Banquet, Bret Harte’s speech at, [259], [260].
Royal Thames Yacht Club, London, [275].
Royce, Josiah, Prof., [53], [86 n.], [134], [152], [201].
Ruskin, [316].
“Russian Envoy, The,” [149].
Ryan, W. R., his “Personal Adventures in Upper and Lower California,” cited, [209].
Sabe, savey, [323].
Sacramento, [57], [152], [154], [155], [158];
gambling in, [170], [172];
fires and floods in, [188], [191];
fighting editors of, [192];
literature in, [197].
Sacramento County, vineyards in, [190].
Sacramento River, [200], [204].
“Sacramento Transcript,” the, [63], [108], [129], [142], [144], [151], [155], [193], [194], [195], [196], [198], [204], [205].
St. George Society, [5].
St. Kentigern, [269], [269 n.]
St. Louis, “Lucky Bill,” a gambler from, [169];
Bret Harte in, [241], [242].
Salmon Falls, [152].
“Salomy Jane,” [80], [321].
San Francisco, at the outbreak of the Civil War, [37], [38];
Bret Harte in, [32];
processions in, [98];
animals in, [99];
climate of, [101], [102];
politics in, [116], [117];
scarcity of women in, in ’49, [141];
the “hoodlum,” [155];
early citizens, [158];
the gambling era in, [170-173];
early development of public opinion and laws against gambling, [172-173];
panic of 1851 in, [185];
increase of crime in, [185];
Vigilance Committees of 1851 and 1856 in, [186];
great fires in, and incidents of, [186-187];
29 suicides in a single year, [190];
its later atmosphere, [215], [217];
Bret Harte’s representation of, true, [288];
Bret Harte’s poem upon, [215], [315].
“San Francisco Bulletin,” the, [44], [138], [173], [195];
tragic death of its editor, [116-117], [173].
“San Francisco Call,” the, [39], [134].
“San Francisco Daily Herald,” the, [36], [112 n.], [173], [184], [193], [203].
San Francisco gambling saloons, [140], [170].
San Francisco horse races, [148].
San Francisco hospital, [140].
San José, [91], [143], [197], [198], [201].
San Ramon Valley, [21].
San Raphael, [33].
Sanitary Commission, [38];
the, and the gambler, [169].
Santa Barbara, [149].
Santa Clara, [198].
Santa Clara Valley, [190].
Santa Cruz, [123].
Santa Cruz County, [89].
Santa Fé, route to California, [68].
Sappho of Green Springs, A, [177].
“Sarah Walker,” [335].
Satire, [300].
Saturday Club, the Boston, Dinner, [222], [229], [276].
“Saturday Review,” the, [313].
“Scenes from El Dorado,” cited, [158].
Scotch characters of Bret Harte, [298].
Scott, Sir Walter, [320], [328].
“Scribner’s Magazine,” [244].
Sea Cliff, Long Island, [252].
Searls, Judge, [126].
Secret of Sobriente’s Well, The, [95].
Secret of Telegraph Hill, A, [337].
“Seeking the Golden Fleece,” cited, [128], [129].
Seixas, Benjamin Mendez, [6].
Seixas, Gershom Mendez, rabbi, [6].
Seixas, Zipporah. See [Hart, Zipporah (Seixas)].
Semple, Dr. Robert, [196 n.]
Señoritas, [148].
“Sepulvida, Don José,” [94], [96].
Serra, Father Junipéro, [212].
Shakspere, in California, [198];
his apprehension of human nature, [295];
[321].
Shepard, vice-consul, at Bradford, [271].
Ship of ’49, A, [54], [321].
Shuck, O. T., his “Bench and Bar of California,” cited, [128].
Sidewalkings, [33].
Sierra County, [103].
Sierras, the, [68], [69];
bears from the, as pets, [155], [161];
[219].
Simplicity, [313];
compared with cultivation, [320].
“Sir James Mac Fen,” [270].
“Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings,” cited, [86], [113].
Slavery, prohibited in California, [36].
Sluce, the, in mining, [160].
“Smellidge,” [322].
Smith, J. Cabot, [134].
“Snapshot Harry,” [345].
Snow in California, [103], [104], [164].
Snow-Bound at Eagle’s, [103], [230].
Society upon the Stanislaus, The, [44], [51 n.]
Solitude, [319], [320].
Sonora, [131].
Sonora County, [131].
Sonora River, [160].
Sopranos, absence of, among Bret Harte’s heroines, [247].
South-Western girl, the, [248].
Southerners in California, [36], [37];
resemblance to Spanish, [94], [95];
[134], [135], [192].
Southgate, Dr. Horatio, elected bishop, [201].
Spanish in California, [93], [94];
gravity of, [94];
resemblance to Southerners, [94], [95];
qualities of, [96];
their longevity, [105];
horsemanship, [199];
the Spanish priest, [211], [212], [213].
Spelling Bee at Angels, The, [310].
Spencer, Herbert, his style, [331].
Split infinitive, the, [339].
“Springfield Republican,” the, [236 n.]
Squatters, [114].
Stage-Coaching in California, [21], [22], [22 n.]
Stanislaus Diggings, [30].
Stanislaus Valley, the, [190].
Starbottle, Col. See [Colonel Starbottle].
Steele, Henry Milford, [279].
Steele, Jessamy (Harte), Bret Harte’s older daughter, [279].
“Stephen Masterton,” [209], [209 n.]
Sterne, Lawrence, [295].
Stevenson, R. L., [338].
Stillman, Dr. J. D. B., his “Seeking the Golden Fleece,” cited, [128], [129].
Stockton, [98], [151], [190], [197], [198], [201].
Stoddard, Charles W., [21], [32], [34], [39], [42], [48].
Story of M’liss, The, [44].
Story of a Mine, The, [340].
Stuart, the robber, death of, [114-115].
Style, Bret Harte’s, [330-346];
defects of, [330], [332], [336], [339];
virtues of, [333-338], [343-346];
his subtlety, [333-337];
his style in poetry, [309], [313], [337-338];
beauty in style, [338].
Subtlety, as a quality of style, [333-336];
Bret Harte’s, [333-337];
over-subtlety, [336], [337].
Sue, produced in New York, [235].
Sunday in California, [204].
Supreme Court, Bret Harte’s description of, [340].
Susy, [296], [336].
Swain, R. B., [33].
Swett’s Bar Company, [160].
Swift, Frank, [60].
Swift, Lindsay, his “Literary Landmarks of Boston,” cited, [231].
Swinburne, his metre copied by Bret Harte, [309].
“Sydney Ducks,” [92].
Tale of a Pony, The, [308].
Tale of Three Truants, A, [104].
Tasajara County, the “cow county,” [190].
Tatnall, Commander, letter from to Bret Harte’s mother, [15].
Taylor, Bayard, his “El Dorado,” cited, [64], [121].
Taylor, the Rev. William, his “California Life,” cited, [145].
Tearful women, as described by Bret Harte, [335].
Telegraph Hill, [143];
pioneers watching from for the fortnightly mail-steamer, [145].
Teller, William, [8].
Temperance in early California, [205].
“Tennessee,” [159], [161-162],
[318].
Tennessee’s Partner, [56], [63], [159], [161], [162], [165];
the story suggested by a real incident, [165];
[166], [233], [284], [294], [318].
“Teresa,” [148].
Terry, Judge David S., [136].
Thackeray, [18], [245];
his creative imagination, [293], [295];
[328].
Thankful Blossom, [233], [245].
Theatres in California, [198], [199].
Their Uncle from California, [3].
Thoreau, Henry D., [297], [318].
Thorne, Charles R., [198].
Thornton, William, alias “Lucky Bill,” gambler, [169].
Thornton, J. Quinn, his “Oregon and California in 1848,” cited, [72].
Three Partners, [249], [295], [296].
“Three Years in California,” Borthwick’s, cited, [22 n.], [94], [120];
Colton’s, cited, [58], [96], [122], [188], [203].
Through the Santa Clara Wheat, [190], [333].
“Tinka Gallinger,” [158], [159], [247], [328].
Tolstoi, [76], [208], [320].
Toole, J. L., collaborates with Bret Harte, [235].
Topeka, Bret Harte’s lecture at, [241].
Tourgueneff, [76], [77].
Transformation of Buckeye Camp, The, [323].
Treasure of the Redwoods, A, [159].
“Trinidad Joe’s” daughter, [78].
Trinity Church, New York, [8].
Trinity County, [21].
Trollope, Anthony, [293].
Truesdale, Abigail, [11].
“Truthful James,” [50], [305], [310].
Tuolumne County, [165].
Tuttletown, [50].
“’Twixt,” for between, [321].
Two Americans, The, [11], [335].
Two Men of Sandy Bar, produced in New York, [234].
“Uncle Ben Dabney,” [193].
Uncle Jim and Uncle Billy, [161], [166], [319].
Underwood, Francis H., [273].
Union, [24].
Union College, Henry Hart at, [10], [18].
“Union Mills,” [317].
University of California, [51], [216].
Unser Karl, [262].
Upham, S. C., his “Scenes in El Dorado,” cited, [158].
“Use,” in the sense of employ, [321].
Vallejo, Gen., [149].
Van de Velde, Arthur, [274].
Van de Velde, Mme., [2-3];
her view of Bret Harte’s departure from California, [217];
in London, [274];
translator of Bret Harte’s stories, [274];
her influence upon him and his art, [274];
[282];
her country seat at Camberley where he died, [283], [284].
Van Wyck, Cornelius, [10].
Views from a German Spion, [262], [263].
Vigilance Committees, [90], [114], [115], [116], [117], [130], [136], [186], [216], [337].
Virginia City, [132].
“Visalia Delta, The,” editor of, killed in street affray, [193].
Vision of the Fountain, A, [79].
Vocabulary, Bret Harte’s, [321], [337].
Voices, of Bret Harte’s women, [247];
his own voice, [2].
Voyage to California, [65], [67].
Vulgarity, definition of, [320].
Waif of the Plains, A, [70], [73], [296].
Wan Lee, the Pagan, [341].
Ward of the Golden Gate, A, [155], [335].
Warner, Charles Dudley, his “Our Italy,” cited, [104], [105].
Washington, Bret Harte lectures in, [239];
his account of the Capitol at, [239].
Watrous, Mrs. Charles, letter from, [215].
Watts-Dunton, Theodore, [120], [297].
Webb, Charles Henry, [39].
West, the, its humor, [303].
Western people, Bret Harte’s impressions of, [243].
West Point, [315].
When the Waters Were Up at “Jules’,” [74], [78], [188].
“Which,” in the cockney sense, as used by Bret Harte, [326-327].
Who was my Quiet Friend? [338 n.]
Widows in Bret Harte’s stories, [248].
Wilkins, Mary, [83].
Williams, Col. Andrew, Bret Harte’s stepfather, [18-19].
Wise, H. A., his “Los Gringos,” cited, [150].
Wombwell, Sir George, [271].
Women, the Pioneer, [74-84], [150-151];
respect for women in America, [77], [147], [148];
development of beauty among the pioneer, [79];
Bret Harte’s literary treatment of, [247-250];
his conventional women, [249];
his army and navy women, [249];
snobbishness of women, [250];
Bret Harte’s keen observation of, [334-336];
his descriptions of beauty in, [334], [335].
Woods, D. B., his “Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings,” cited, [86], [113].
Wyman, Margaret B. (Harte), Bret Harte’s sister, [13], [17], [19], [32].
“Yawpin’,” [324].
“Yerba Buena,” [334].
Yorkshire Club, York, Eng., first meeting of Bret Harte and William Black at, [271].
Young Men’s Association in Albany, [11].
Young Robin Gray, [269], [270], [299].
“Youngest Miss Piper,” the, [160], [249].
“Youngest Prospector in Calaveras,” the, [27];
not an uncommon child, [154];
[208].
“Yuba Bill,” [22], [23], [83], [303], [329], [339].
Yuba County, vineyards in, [190].
Footnotes:
[1] The final e was added to Henry Hart’s name in the last years of his life, and the family tradition is that this was done to distinguish him from another Henry Hart who, like himself, was very active in the political campaign of the year 1844.
[2] For the spelling of Henry Hart’s name, see the [footnote on page 1].
[3] The Crusade of the Excelsior contains some reminiscences of the voyage.
[4] The following account of a ride in a California stage is given by Borthwick: “All sense of danger was lost in admiration of the coolness and dexterity of the driver as he circumvented every obstacle without going one inch farther out of his way than was necessary to save us from perdition. With his right foot he managed a brake, and, clawing at the reins with both hands, he swayed his body from side to side, to preserve his equilibrium, as now on the right pair of wheels, now on the left, he cut the outside edge round a stump or a rock; and when coming to a spot where he was going to execute a difficult manœuvre on a slanting piece of ground, he trimmed the wagon, as we would a small boat in a squall, and made us all crowd up to the weather side to prevent a capsize.”
[5] Cressy. The paragraph quoted is only a part of the description.
[6] A Phyllis of the Sierras.
[7] Pemberton’s “Life of Bret Harte,” page 102.
[8] Side-meat is the thin flank of a pig, cured like a ham. It was the staple article of food in the Southwest.
[9] This poem is included in the author’s collected poems under the title, The Return of Belisarius.
[10] Bret Harte in the General Introduction to his works.
[11] The proof-sheets of the Heathen Chinee are preserved in the University of California, and they show many changes in Bret Harte’s writing. See “Bret Harte’s Country,” an interesting illustrated article by Will. M. Clemens, in “The Bookman,” vol. xiii, p. 224.
[12] The Society upon the Stanislaus first appeared in the “News Letter.”
[13] See Hittell’s “History of California.” This book, the best and fullest on the subject, contains ample evidence of our author’s accuracy.
[14] A Forty-Niner, as defined by the California Society of Pioneers, is an immigrant who, before midnight of December 31, 1849, was within the State of California, or on shipboard within three miles of the coast, that being the extent of the maritime jurisdiction of the State.
[15] There was, however, a miner of seventy at Sonoma who had left a wife and six children at home in the East; and on October 1, 1850, there arrived in Sacramento a veteran of the Revolutionary War, ninety years of age. He had come all the way from Illinois to seek the fortune which fate had hitherto denied him. Unfortunately, he was so feeble that it became necessary to send him to a hospital, and history does not record his subsequent career, if indeed he survived to have one.
[16] “Pioneer Times in California.”
[17] Mr. Kipling, who visited California in the year 1898, speaks of “the remarkable beauty” of the women of San Francisco,—descendants in most cases of the Pioneers.
[18] The Reverend Walter Colton, “Three Years in California.”
[19] Just across the river, in the State of Illinois, is another Pike County, similar in soil and population; and this Illinois county was the scene of John Hay’s “Pike County Ballads.”
[20] Eliza W. Farnham, “California, Indoors and Out.”
[21] Bayard Taylor, “El Dorado.”
[22] Edwin Bryant, “California.”
[23] See Thornton’s “Oregon and California in 1848.”
[24] A Waif of the Plains.
[25] When the Waters Were Up at “Jules’.”
[26] In A First Family of Tasajara he gives the same explanation for the beauty of Clementina, which is described as “hopelessly and even wantonly inconsistent with her surroundings.”
[27] “The coarse, the horny-handed, the bull-throated were the most successful. They set the fashion, those great men of the pickaxe and the pistol, and a fine, fire-eating, antediluvian, reckless fashion it was.”—W. M. Fisher, “The Californians.”
[28] How long this continued to be the California point of view is shown by an interesting reminiscence of Professor Royce’s. “I reached twenty years of age without ever becoming clearly conscious of what was meant by judging a man by his antecedents, a judgment that in an older and less isolated community is natural and inevitable, and that, I think, in most of our Western communities grows up more rapidly than it has grown up in California, where geographical isolation is added to the absence of tradition.”
[29] D. B. Woods, “Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings.”
[30] G. K. Chesterton, in “The Critic.”
[31] “Perils, Pastimes and Pleasures of an Emigrant,” by J. W.
[32] Eliza W. Farnham, “California, Indoors and Out.”
[33] Dancing was a common amusement among the miners even when there were no women to be had as partners. “It was a strange sight to see a party of long-bearded men, in heavy boots and flannel shirts, going through all the steps and figures of the dance with so much spirit, and often with a great deal of grace; hearty enjoyment depicted on their dried-up, sun-burned faces, and revolvers and bowie-knives glancing in their belts; while a crowd of the same rough-looking customers stood around, cheering them on to greater efforts, and occasionally dancing a step or two quietly on their own account.”—Borthwick’s “Three Years in California.”
[34] The Romance of Madroño Hollow.
[35] The Reverend Walter Colton, “Three Years in California.”
[36] W. M. Fisher, “The Californians.”
[37] Mrs. D. B. Bates, “Incidents on Land and Water.”
[38] J. M. Letts, “California Illustrated.”
[39] “Our Italy.”
[40] This quality seems to have persisted, if we can trust Mr. Rudyard Kipling, who wrote in the year 1899: “San Francisco is a mad city.... Recklessness is in the air. I can’t explain where it comes from, but there it is. The roaring winds off the Pacific make you drunk, to begin with.”
[41] Stephen J. Field, “Personal Reminiscences of California.”
[42] William Grey, “Pioneer Times in California.”
[43] See the San Francisco “Herald” of May 19, 1856.
[44] D. B. Woods, “Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings.”
[45] The Captain calmly directed the transfer of the women and children, kept his place on the paddle-box, and went down with the others. He was James Lewis Herndon, a Commander in the United States Navy, and the explorer of the Amazon. A monument to his memory was erected by brother officers in the grounds of the Naval Academy at Annapolis. The steamer was bringing $2,000,000 in gold, and the loss of this treasure increased the commercial panic then prevailing in the Atlantic States.
[46] Baron Fairfax of Cameron in the Peerage of Scotland. Many stories are told of his adventures in California.
[47] Bayard Taylor, who visited the mining camps in the winter of ’49, found them well organized under the rule of an Alcalde. “Nothing in California,” he wrote, “seemed more miraculous to me than this spontaneous evolution of social order from the worst elements of anarchy.”
[48] William Grey, “Pioneer Times in California.”
[49] “Seeking the Golden Fleece.”
[50] Shucks, “Bench and Bar of California.”
[51] William Grey, “Pioneer Times in California.”
[52] S. J. Field, “Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California.”
[53] Journalistic affrays were frequent. See page [192] infra.
[54] C. W. Haskins, “The Argonauts of California.”
[55] “Emerson in Concord,” page 94.
[56] Introduction to volume ii of Bret Harte’s works.
[57] “Alta California” of July 21, 1851.
[58] The Reverend William Taylor, “California Life.”
[59] In one day two women, crazed by the sufferings of their children, drowned themselves in the Humboldt River.
[60] E. W. Farnham, “California Indoors and Out.”
[61] Before the Civil War, the treatment of women, even in the Eastern cities, was almost invariably courteous and respectful. It was the exception, in New York or Boston, when a man neglected to give up his seat in a public conveyance to a woman; whereas, nowadays the exception is the other way. Profound respect shown to woman as woman is incompatible with a society founded upon an aristocratic, plutocratic, or caste system. It was never known in England. It is the product of a real democracy and of that alone; and in this country, as we become more and more plutocratic, the respect for women diminishes. The great cities of the United States are fast approaching, in this regard, the brutality of London, Paris and Berlin.
[62] In the poem, Concepcion de Arguello.
[63] H. A. Wise, “Los Gringos.”
[64] H. R. Helper, “The Land of Gold.”
[65] Horace Greeley, “An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco.”
[66] How Santa Claus came to Simpson’s Bar.
[67] A Ward of the Golden Gate.
[68] S. C. Upham, “Scenes in El Dorado.”
[69] Volume xv, page 466.
[70] See also page [103], supra.
[71] The late Sherman Hoar of Concord, whose name is inscribed on the tablet in Memorial Hall devoted to those Harvard Graduates who lost their lives in the Spanish War, was almost exactly such a character as Bret Harte described,—long to be remembered with affection.
[72] H. H. Bancroft, “Chronicles of the Builders.”
[73] C. W. Haskins, “The Argonauts of California.”
[74] Benton, “The California Pilgrim.”
[75] A Passage in the Life of Mr. John Oakhurst.
[76] Delano, “Life on the Plains.”
[77] “The Virginia Editor is a young, unmarried, intemperate, pugnacious, gambling gentleman.”—George W. Bagby, “The Old Virginia Gentlemen and Other Sketches.”
[78] They were the Reverend Walter Colton, Chaplain in the United States Navy, and Alcalde, as already mentioned, and Dr. Robert Semple, a well-known Pioneer politician.
[79] “Men and Memories of San Francisco,” by Barry and Patten.
[80] “California: its Characteristics and Prospects.”
[81] See also supra, p. [169].
[82] It must be admitted that the ministers were placed in a difficult situation, being obliged to cope with the hardy, humorous materialism of Pioneer life. The following dialogue is an authentic illustration:—
“Mr. Small, do not you believe in the overruling Providence of God?”
“Which God?”
“There is but one God.”
“I don’t see it, Parson. On this yere Pacific Coast gods is numerous—Chinee gods, Mormon gods, Injin gods, Christian gods, an’ the Bank o’ Californy!”—“The Californians,” by W. M. Fisher.
[83] A traveller passing through Dolores in Mexico was the witness of a marriage like that of Stephen Masterton: “Whilst stopping here I saw a smart-looking Yankee and a Spanish girl married by the priest, whose words were interpreted to the bridegroom as the ceremony proceeded. The lady was of rather dark complexion but extremely pretty; and although she knew scarcely a word of English, and the bridegroom knew still less of Spanish, it was evident from the eloquence of the glances which passed between them, that they were at no loss to make themselves understood.”—“Personal Adventures in Upper and Lower California,” W. R. Ryan.
[84] Mrs. Kemble, on the other hand, as the Reader may remember, described him as “tall.” His real height, already mentioned, was five feet, eight inches.
[85] W. D. Howells, “Literary Friends and Acquaintance.”
[86] See Pemberton’s “Life of Bret Harte,” page 228.
[87] My Friend the Tramp, written in 1872.
[88] Samuel Bowles, famous as Editor of the “Springfield Republican.”
[89] Pemberton’s “Life of Bret Harte,” page 133.
[90] Pemberton’s “Life of Bret Harte,” page 136.
[91] Pemberton’s “Life of Bret Harte,” pp. 137-142.
[92] These lectures, with a short address delivered in London, have recently been published in a volume entitled “The Lectures of Bret Harte,” by Charles Meeker Kozlay, New York.
[93] Pemberton’s “Life of Bret Harte,” page 145.
[94] Pemberton’s “Life of Bret Harte,” pp. 168-170.
[95] It was now a Commercial Agency, the grade next below that of a Consulship.
[96] Pemberton’s “Life of Bret Harte,” page 173.
[97] Pemberton’s “Life of Bret Harte,” page 186.
[98] Pemberton’s “Life of Bret Harte,” page 181.
[99] See [footnote on page 244], supra.
[100] Pemberton’s “Life of Bret Harte,” p. 265.
[101] St. Kentigern established a Bishopric in the year 560 in the place which afterward became Glasgow, and thus he is regarded as the founder of the city. His monument is shown beneath the choir of the Cathedral where his body was interred A. D. 601.
[102] By the regulations then in force Consuls were forbidden to be absent from their posts for a period exceeding ten days, without first obtaining leave from the President.
[103] Pemberton’s “Life of Bret Harte,” page 334.
[104] Mary Stuart Boyd. See “Harper’s Magazine,” vol. 105, page 773.
[105] His friend and travelling companion, Colonel Arthur Collins.
[108] When news of the death of Dickens reached Bret Harte he was camping in the Foot-Hills, far from San Francisco, but he sent a telegram to hold back for a day the printing of the “Overland,” then ready for the press, and his poem was written that night and forwarded the next morning. A week or two later Bret Harte received a cordial letter from Dickens, written just before his death, complimenting the California author, and requesting him to write a story for “All the Year Round.”
[109] A miner, writing in August, 1850, from the Middle Fork of the American River, said: “When I came up here, the river was a roaring torrent, and its sombre music could plainly be heard upon the tops of the mountains rising to a height of about three thousand feet.”
[110] G. H. Denny, President of Washington and Lee University.
[111] Thomas E. Cramblet, President of Bethany College.
[112] Gerard Fowke, author of the “Archæological History of Ohio.”
[113] R. H. Crossfield, President of Transylvania University.
[114] J. I. D. Hinds, Dean of the University of Nashville.
[115] For the meaning of “Pike,” see supra, page [59].
[116] Through the Santa Clara Wheat.
[117] How Santa Claus Came to Simpson’s Bar.
[118] R. L. Stevenson.
[119] The author had described this scene before in prose, though he may have forgotten it. In the story called Who Was My Quiet Friend? he wrote: “The pines in the caftan below were olive gulfs of heat, over which a hawk here and there drifted lazily, or, rising to our level, cast a weird and gigantic shadow of slowly moving wings on the mountain-side.”
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