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She would have felt right at home in the dilapidated cabin in nearby Calaveras County that Mark Twain once shared with Bret Harte, seeming to step straight out of the pages of "Roughing It. Grant for preserving the Union (he eventually published the statesman's best-selling memoirs); wrote in favor of rights for African Americans but was fond of telling racist jokes (and co-authored with Bret Harte the grotesquely anti-Chinese play Ah Sin); assailed the Gilded Age yet formed a close personal and professional relationship with the robber baron Henry Rogers; lampooned con men and scam artists yet went broke by investing in crackpot inventions and get-rich-quick schemes; and SO on. The narrative then backtracks and explains House's childhood, his early journalistic success as a music and literature critic, and his wild years gadding about with journalists and writers that included Samuel Clemens, Bret Harte and Artemus Ward. |
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Bret Harte - United States writer noted for his stories about life during the California gold rush (1836-1902)