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Excerpt from Novels and Stories of Bret Harte: Three Partners, or the Big Strike on Heavy Tree Hill; Under the Redwoods
The sun was going down on the Black Spur Range. The red light it had kindled there was still eating its way along the ser ried crest, showing through gaps in the ranks of pines, etching out the interstices of broken boughs, fading away and then ¿ash ing suddenly out again like sparks in burnt up paper. Then the night wind swept down the whole mountain side, and began its usual struggle with the shadows upclimb ing from the valley, only to lose itself in the end and be absorbed in the all-coxiquering darkness. Yet for some time the pines 611 the long slope of Heavy Tree Hill mur mured and protested with swaying arms; but as the shadows stole upwards, and cabin after cabin and tunnel after tunnel were swallowed up, a complete silence followed.
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Über den Autor / die Autorin
Francis Bret Harte (1836 - 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.
