Bret Harte publishes his first short story in San Francisco, California

Bret Harte, was born Francis Brett Hart in Albany, New York on August 25, 1836.  He moved to California at age seventeen and settled into a career as a journalist.  On April 29, 1860 he published his first story in the journal he was working for, The Golden Era in San Francisco. This piece, called "My Metamorphosis," was the first in a long career that made Harte famous across the world as the chronicler and story-teller of early California. He died of cancer in England in 1902.  (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Gary Scharnhorst, Bret Harte: Opening the American Literary West (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000), 16. 
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