Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. In 1891, Book Chat called A Ward of the Golden Gate by far the best work he has done in recent years and convincingly demonstrates his right to a prominent place not only in the front ranks of American novelists, but among the best living writers of the Anglo-Saxon world." Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге A Ward of the Golden Gate (Bret Harte)