Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1250
Land area (2000): 0.562000 sq. miles (1.455573 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.562000 sq. miles (1.455573 sq. km)
FIPS code: 08172
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 37.603182 N, 121.005844 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Bret Harte
Wikipedia
Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902) was an American short story writer and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, fiction, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction. As he moved from California to the eastern U.S. to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but his Gold Rush tales have been most often reprinted, adapted, and admired.
Bret Harte was an American author.
Bret Harte may also refer to any of the following, all of which were named for the author:
- Bret Harte, California, a census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California
- Bret Harte Union High School in Angels Camp, California
- Bret Harte Middle School, in the Oakland Unified School District
- Bret Harte Middle School, in the San Jose Unified School District
- Bret Harte Middle School, in the Hayward Unified School District
Usage examples of "bret harte".
I had hoped my first evening in town to pay a call on Madame Restell and report on her patient's progress, but instead of an evening at Madame Restell's amusing atelier, I had an unexpectedly fascinating time with John Apgar, who had got us tickets for a new play called Two Men of Sandy Bar by Bret Harte, one of the numerous imitators of Mark Twain.
Those early days left him with a fund of recollections upon which his drafts were honored -- as was similarly the case with Bret Harte -- for long years after the experiences themselves had become old (although not unhappy) far off things.