TY - BOOK AU - Harte,Bret TI - Tales of the Argonauts AV - PS PY - 2006/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Short stories KW - Western stories KW - American fiction -- 19th century N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tales_of_the_Argonauts; Release date is 2006-05-30; The rose of Tuolumne -- A passage in the life of Mr. John Oakhurst -- Wan Lee, the pagan -- How old man Plunkett went home -- The fool of Five Forks -- Baby Sylvester -- An episode of Fiddletown -- A Jersey centenarian; Produced by Don Lainson; David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Tales of the Argonauts" by Bret Harte is a collection of short stories published in 1875. Set during California's 1849 gold rush and its aftermath, these tales capture a world where adventurers from across the globe lived free from conventional society's restraints. Harte's stories reveal essential truths about human nature, finding goodness even in the lowest characters. Through humor and pathos, he portrays a primitive frontier society he witnessed firsthand as a boy, transforming raw experience into enduring literature. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2886 ER -