Nine short stories by Bret Harte who, in 1870, was the highest paid author in the U.S. Was he "a whispering pine of the Sierras, transplanted to Fifth Avenue", as Andrew Carnegie would have it, or was he, as Mark Twain said, "The Immortal Bilk"? - Summary by Mark Leder
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
A Mercury of the Foot-Hills, Part One
33:58 - Chapter 2
A Mercury of the Foot-Hills, Part Two
27:58 - Chapter 3
Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff, Part One
34:05 - Chapter 4
Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff, Part Two
41:42 - Chapter 5
The Landlord of the Big Flume Hotel, Part One
19:09 - Chapter 6
The Landlord of the Big Flume Hotel, Part Two
24:58 - Chapter 7
A Buckeye Hollow Inheritance, Part One
24:05 - Chapter 8
A Buckeye Hollow Inheritance, Part Two
33:30 - Chapter 9
The Reincarnation of Smith, Part One
25:16 - Chapter 10
The Reincarnation of Smith, Part Two
37:19 - Chapter 11
Lanty Foster's Mistake
39:47 - Chapter 12
An Ali Baba of the Sierras
22:47 - Chapter 13
Miss Peggy's Proteges
28:29 - Chapter 14
The Goddess of Excelsior
41:48