Tales of the Argonauts on the Frontier (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from Tales of the Argonauts on the Frontier For there they stood alone. There was no sound nor motion in earth, or woods, or heaven. They might have been the one man and woman for whom this goodly earth that lay at their feet, rimmed with the deepest azure, was created. And, seeing this, they turned toward each other with a sudden instinct, and their hands met, and then their lips in one long kiss. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.







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Tales of the Argonauts


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Bret Harte rose to literary acclaim on the strength of his stories of the eccentric characters that populated California during the Gold Rush. This collection brings together a number of tales related to this topic, including one featuring recurring character John Oakhurst, as well as a number of tales set in the South and Northeast U.S.