The Argonauts of North Liberty is a longer tale by Harte. Taking place in a staunchly reserved Presbyterian society, it illustrates in its heroine the revolt of an unruly and unregenerate nature against a Puritan society. North Liberty is a Connecticut town, and the "Argonauts" are a man and woman who migrate to California to begin life again, escaping the strictures of their earlier life, like the "Blue Law" setting of the opening. Once in California, Harte's feel for the time and setting can take full flower.
02-By Shore and Sedge (English) （沙滩和苔草旁）
The hand that had been placed in the bride's cold fingers slipped from them and mechanically sought Gideon's again. The significance of the unconscious act brought the first spontaneous tears into the woman's eyes. It was his last act, for when Gideon's voice was again lifted in prayer, the spirit for whom it was offered had risen with it, as it were, still lovingly hand in hand, from the earth forever.
03-Clarence (English)
As Clarence Brant, President of the Robles Land Company, and husband of the rich widow of John Peyton, of the Robles Ranche, mingled with the outgoing audience of the Cosmopolitan Theater, at San Francisco, he elicited the usual smiling nods and recognition due to his good looks and good fortune.
04-Colonel Starbottle's Client (English)
Society has forgiven Jo Corbin for killing a man, but can he forgive himself? Will the Postmistress lose all in a bid to help a friend escape justice? Will the new teaching assistant's unorthodox ways tame the unruly pioneer children? These are just three of the nine wonderful short stories from Bret Harte, set in wild and wooly 19th century California.It may be remembered that it was the habit of that gallant war- horse of the Calaveras democracy, Colonel Starbottle, at the close of a political campaign, to return to his original profession of the Law. Perhaps it could not be called a peaceful retirement. The same fiery-tongued eloquence and full-breasted chivalry which had in turns thrilled and overawed freemen at the polls were no less fervid and embattled before a jury.
05-Cressy (English)
As the master of the Indian Spring school emerged from the pine woods into the little clearing before the schoolhouse, he stopped whistling, put his hat less jauntily on his head, threw away some wild flowers he had gathered on his way, and otherwise assumed the severe demeanor of his profession and his mature age - which was at least twenty. Not that he usually felt this an assumption; it was a firm conviction of his serious nature that he impressed others, as he did himself, with the blended austerity and ennui of deep and exhausted experience.
06-Devil's Ford (English) （魔鬼的福特）
After some further discussion, it was gravely settled that Kearney should furnish water brought from the Union Ditch, twenty miles away, at a cost of two hundred thousand dollars, to feed a memorial fountain erected by Mattingly, worth a hundred thousand dollars, as a crowning finish to public buildings contributed by Maryland Joe, to the extent of half a million more. The disposition of these vast sums by gentlemen wearing patched breeches awakened no sense of the ludicrous, nor did any doubt, reservation, or contingency enter into the plans of the charming enthusiasts themselves.
07-Drift from Two Shores (English) （漂流）
He lived beside a river that emptied into a great ocean. The narrow strip of land that lay between him and the estuary was covered at high tide by a shining film of water at low tide with the cast-up offerings of sea and shore.
08-The Bell-Ringer of Angel's (English)
09-Complete Poetical Works (English)
10-Condensed Novels (English)
11-The Crusade of the Excelsior (English)
12-East and West Poems (English)
13-A First Family of Tasajara (English)
14-Flip, a California romance (English)
15-Found at Blazing Star (English)
16-From Sand Hill to Pine (English)
17-Frontier Stories (English)
18-The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales (English)
19-In a Hollow of the Hills (English)
20-In the Carquinez Woods (English)
21-Jeff Briggs's Love Story (English)
22-Legends and Tales (English)
23-The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales (English)
24-Maruja (English)
25-A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready (English)
26-Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation (English)
27-Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories (English)
28-On the Frontier (English)
29-Openings in the Old Trail (English)
30-A Phyllis of the Sierras (English)
31-A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories (English)