Gabriel Conroy

Hartford, CT: American Publishing Co., 1876.

Price: $150.00

Hardcover. First American edition, second state (reading "copyrighted" rather than "copyright"). Front pastedown with contemporary inked inscription; very good in moderately worn cloth with the spinal extremities rubbed and the back cover spotted. Harte's only full length novel, *Gabriel Conroy*, a Gold Rush-era romance.

Item #71959

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Item #71959 Gabriel Conroy. Bret HARTE.

Bret Harte
birth name: Francis Brett Harte
born: 8/25/1836
died: 5/5/1902

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Biography

American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. Born in Albany, New York, he moved to California in 1854, later working there in a number of capacities, including miner, teacher, messenger, and journalist.more