# By Shore and Sedge

Author: Harte, Bret, 1836-1902

Genre: Contemporary Reviews

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2178

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=By+Shore+and+Sedge+Harte&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

On October 10, 1856, about four hundred people were camped in Tasajara Valley, California. It could not have been for the prospect, since a more barren, dreary, monotonous, and uninviting landscape never stretched before human eye; it could not have been for convenience or contiguity, as the nearest settlement was thirty miles away; it could not have been for health or salubrity, as the breath of the ague-haunted tules in the outlying Stockton marshes swept through the valley; it could not have been for space or comfort, for, encamped on an unlimited plain, men and women were huddled together as closely as in an urban tenement-house, without the freedom or decency of rural isolation; it c...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-shore-and-sedge-2178/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-shore-and-sedge-2178/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-shore-and-sedge-2178/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-shore-and-sedge-2178/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-shore-and-sedge-2178/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-shore-and-sedge-2178/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-shore-and-sedge-2178/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-shore-and-sedge-2178/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-shore-and-sedge-2178/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-shore-and-sedge-2178/chapters/5/index.md)