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Podcast: 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Episode: BEST OF (#61 OF 566) LANTY FOSTER'S MISTAKE by BRET HARTE
Description: A young girl meets a stranger riding near her parent's ranch, does him a favor, and later comes to believe he may be a Mexican horse thief. From "Stories of the Early West" by Bret Harte About the author Profile Image for Bret Harte. Bret Harte Follow People note American writer Francis Bret Harte for The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches (1870), his best-known collection of his stories about California mining towns. People best remember this poet for his short-story fiction, featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the...