How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar, is universally conceded to rank among Bret Harte's best tales.

CONTENTS Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands How Santa Claus came to Simpson's Bar The Princess Bob and her Friends The Iliad of Sandy Bar Mr. Thompson's Prodigal The Romanc

The prototype of the modern man of letters as a man of business, Harte epitomized the professional writer in America immediately after the Civil War. Nor was hi