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Gold miners were a colorful lot, and they provided writer Bret Harte
(originally Francis Brette Harte, 1836-1902) with plenty to write about. Harte
created the "local-color" style of American fiction writing, which captures a
particular region's way of speaking, manners, folklore, and landscape. Harte
was an enormously successful writer. His most popular story was "The Luck of
the Roaring Camp," a story set in the gold fields. Later in his life, Harte
became a diplomat to Germany and Scotland, and he eventually settled in
London.
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