This man originally settled Arcata, which was just a mining camp on Humboldt Bay, and when he heard that Charles Dickens had died, he had his magazine's publication delayed by 24 hours so he could write a tribute, "Dickens in Camp.
This man originally settled Arcata, which was just a mining camp on Humboldt Bay, and when he heard that Charles Dickens had died, he had his magazine's publication delayed by 24 hours so he could write a tribute, "Dickens in Camp." That magazine was The Overland Monthly, in which he published such stories as "Madrono," "In the Tunnel," and "Friar Pedro's Ride." Mark Twain criticized this man as insincere, and said that the miners' patois never existed outside of this man's work. One of his works, 1870's "Plain Language from Truthful James," was intended to satirize Swinburne's "Atalanta in Calydon." FTP, name the author of "The Luck of Roaring Camp" and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat."
This man originally settled Arcata, which was just a mining camp on Humboldt Bay, and when he heard that Charles Dickens had died, he had his magazine's publication delayed by 24 hours so he could write a tribute, "Dickens in Camp.
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