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Bret Harte was born in Albany, New York in 1836. At 18 he moved to California where he worked as a prospector, a teacher and for Wells Fargo. In 1857 he began his journalistic career when he was employed by the Northern Californian. His support for Native Americans in the area was unpopular and after settlers were killed in 1860 he lost his job.

Harte moved to San Francisco where he worked for the Golden Era before becoming the editor of the Californian. One of those he employed on the journal was Mark Twain who later claimed Harte "trimmed and trained and schooled me from an awkward utterer of coarse grotesqueness to a writer of paragraphs and chapters."

In 1868 Harte became editor of the Overland Monthly when it was established in San Francisco in 1868. Over the next two years Harte established it as one of America's leading literary journals. Harte also published his own poems and stories in the journal, including the famous The Luck of Ro