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The Story of a Mine
The narrative revolves around Concho, a Mexican prospector navigating the challenging landscape in search of silver and gold, as well as the darker human motivations intertwined with such pursuits.
"The Story of a Mine" by Bret Harte is a novel. The narrative revolves around Concho, a Mexican prospector navigating the challenging landscape in search of silver and gold, as well as the darker human motivations intertwined with such pursuits.
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It was a steep trail leading over the Monterey Coast Range. Concho was very tired, Concho was very dusty, Concho was very much disgusted. To Concho's mind there was but one relief for these insurmountable difficulties, and that lay in a leathern bottle slung over the machillas of his saddle. Concho raised the bottle to his lips, took a long draught, made a wry face, and ejaculated:
It appeared that the bottle did not contain aguardiente, but had lately been filled in a tavern near Tres Pinos by an Irishman who sold had American whisky under that pleasing Castilian title. Nevertheless Concho had already nearly emptied the bottle, and it fell back against the saddle as yellow and flaccid as his own cheeks. Thus reinforced Concho turned to look at the valley behind him, from which he had climbed since noon. It was a sterile waste bordered here and there by arable fringes and valdas of meadow land, but in the main, dusty, dry, and forbidding. His eye rested for a moment on a low white cloud line on the eastern horizon, but so mocking and unsubstantial that it seemed to come and go as he gazed. Concho struck his forehead and winked his hot eyelids. Was it the Sierras or the cursed American whisky?
Contents
- 01The Story of a Mine
- 02Part—I.
- 03Chapter I
- 04Who Sought It
- 05Chapter II
- 06Who Found It
- 07Chapter III
- 08Who Claimed It
- 09Chapter IV
- 10Who Took It
- 11Chapter V
- 12Who Had a Lien on It
- 13Part II.—In the Courts
- 14Chapter VI
- 15How a Grant Was Got for It
- 16Chapter VII
- 17Who Plead for It
- 18Chapter VIII
- 19Of Counsel for It
- 20Chapter IX
- 21What the Fair Had to Do About It
- 22Part III.—In Congress
- 23Chapter X
- 24Who Lobbied for It
- 25Chapter XI
- 26How It Was Lobbied for
- 27Chapter XII
- 28A Race for It
- 29Chapter XIII
- 30How It Became Famous
- 31Chapter XIV
- 32What Culture Did for It
- 33Chapter XV
- 34How It Became Unfinished Business
- 35Chapter XVI
- 36And Who Forgot It
About this edition
- Author
- Bret Harte
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 110 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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