# Frontier Stories

Author: Harte, Bret, 1836-1902

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12419

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Frontier+Stories+Harte&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Just where the red track of the Los Gatos road streams on and upward like the sinuous trail of a fiery rocket until it is extinguished in the blue shadows of the Coast Range, there is an embayed terrace near the summit, hedged by dwarf firs. At every bend of the heat-laden road the eye rested upon it wistfully; all along the flank of the mountain, which seemed to pant and quiver in the oven-like air, through rising dust, the slow creaking of dragging wheels, the monotonous cry of tired springs, and the muffled beat of plunging hoofs, it held out a promise of sheltered coolness and green silences beyond. Sunburned and anxious faces yearned toward it from the dizzy, swaying tops of stage-co...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frontier-stories-12419/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frontier-stories-12419/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frontier-stories-12419/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frontier-stories-12419/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frontier-stories-12419/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frontier-stories-12419/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frontier-stories-12419/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frontier-stories-12419/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frontier-stories-12419/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frontier-stories-12419/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frontier-stories-12419/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frontier-stories-12419/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frontier-stories-12419/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frontier-stories-12419/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frontier-stories-12419/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frontier-stories-12419/chapters/12/index.md)