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A Ward of the Golden Gate

Author
Bret Harte
Read by
Finian Silverwood
Language
English
Length
4 hours 41 minutes
ISBN
9781802567052
Published
28 June 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
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A foundling christened Yerba Buena grows up as San Francisco’s official ward under mayors, supervisors, and Colonel Pendleton, while Paul Hathaway — who once named her and walked away — returns as honourable trouble. Bret Harte’s Gold Rush novella turns trusteeship into romance and rumour: Spanish title versus shabbier origin, Santa Clara polish, a girl testing the legend of her blood until guardianship is no longer an office.

Author

Bret Harte (1836–1902) gave American literature one of its first great regional voices — the Gold Rush West rendered in short stories of luck, loyalty, and moral surprise. He saw California not as empty wilderness but as a theatre of human character: outcasts who discover dignity, camps that become temporary homes, and sentiment that arrives when least expected.

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