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