COLLATERAL READINGS

How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's BarBret Harte
The Outcasts of Poker Flat" "
The Luck of Roaring Camp" "
Baby Sylvester" "
A Waif of the Plains" "
How I Went to the Mines" "
M'liss" "
Frontier Stories" "
Tales of the Argonauts" "
A Sappho of Green Springs and Other Stories" "
Pony TracksFrederic Remington
Crooked Trails" "
Cœur d'AlèneMary Hallock Foote
The Led-Horse Claim" "
Wolfville DaysAlfred Henry Lewis
Wolfville Nights" "
The Sunset Trail" "
Pathfinders of the WestAgnes C. Laut
The Old Santa Fé TrailH. Inman
Stories of the Great WestTheodore Roosevelt
California and the CaliforniansD.S. Jordan
Our ItalyC.D. Warner
CaliforniaJosiah Royce
The West from a Car WindowR.H. Davis
The Story of the RailroadCy Warman
Roughing ItS.L. Clemens
PoemsJoaquin Miller
Appropriate poems by Bret Harte:—
John Burns of Gettysburg
In the Tunnel[Pg 251]
The Lost Galleon
Grizzly
Battle Bunny
The Wind in the Chimney
Reveille
Plain Language from Truthful James (The Heathen Chinee)
Highways and Byways in the Rocky MountainsClifton Johnson
Trails of the PathfindersG.B. Grinnell
Stories of CaliforniaE.M. Sexton
Glimpses of CaliforniaHelen Hunt Jackson
California: Its History and RomanceJ.S. McGroarty
Heroes of CaliforniaG.W. James
Recollections of an Old PioneerP.H. Bennett
The Mountains of CaliforniaJohn Muir
Romantic CaliforniaE.C. Peixotto
Silverado SquattersR.L. Stevenson
Jimville: A Bret Harte Town (in Atlantic Monthly, November, 1902)Mary Austin
The Prospector (poem)Robert W. Service
The Rover" "
The Life of Bret HarteH.C. Merwin
Bret HarteHenry W. Boynton
Bret HarteT.E. Pemberton
American Writers of To-day, pp. 212-229H.C. Vedder
Bookman, 15:312 (see also map on page 313).

For stories of famous friendships, look up:—

Damon and Pythias (any good encyclopedia).
Patroclus and Achilles (the Iliad).
David and Jonathan (the Bible: 1st Samuel 18:1-4; 19:1-7; chapter 20, entire; 23:16-18; chapter 31, entire; 2d Samuel, chapter 1, entire).
The Substitute (Le Remplaçant) François Coppée
(In Modern Short-stories edited by M. Ashmun.)


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