HARTE, FRANCIS BRET
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Born in New York in 1839, was associated with the San Francisco Golden Era in 1857, edited for a short time the Californian, and in 1868 established the Overland Monthly. He has mostly written sketches of American frontier life. From 1880 to 1885 he was U.S. Consul at Glasgow.
By John Franklin Jameson
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