He called Rafael Semmes the "sweet Peculator /
He imitated Burns in his first dialect poem, "The Bailie O'Perth."  He called Rafael Semmes the "sweet Peculator / And Depredator / Of every sea," and "The Wrath of McDawdle" and "In Memoriam Jefferson Davis" also appear in his Civil War Poems.  Having become famous for "To the Pliocene Skull," he had a huge hit with 1870's "Dickens in Camp," while "A Question of Privilege" and "The Spelling Bee at Angels" were among the narrative poems "reported" by one of his most popular characters.  The preface to his best-known work of fiction discusses the Honest and Dissolute Miners in the course of claiming that there is no moral to such stories as "The Right Eye of the Commander" and "Miggles," though he is better known for "Tennessee's Partner" and "Mliss."  FTP, name this editor of the Overland Monthly who is even better known for such short stories as "The Luck of Roaring Camp" and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat."
He imitated Burns in his first dialect poem, "The Bailie O'Perth."  
(Francis) Bret Harte