The Luck of the Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches
Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1871. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2335760
Reprint. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his bookplate on front endpaper (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). Front board stained, spine toned, ink name of Eleanor F. Lansing on first blank.
iv, 256 pp. The story by American author Bret Harte is about the birth of a baby boy in a 19th-century gold prospecting camp. The boy's mother, Cherokee Sal, died at his birth, so the men of Roaring Camp decided to take care of him themselves. They soon noticed that since his birth, the child brought luck to the camp and concluded, the boy was their good luck charm. Thus, the miners christen the boy Thomas Luck. As the story evolves, many miners decide to refine their behavior and refrain from gambling and fighting, thus making life in the camp really better.
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