THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP by BRET HARTE
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 10 February 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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In this short story by Bret Harte, first published in the August 1868 issue of Overland Monthly, a baby boy is born an orphan in a gold mining camp in California and raides by a grizzled bunch of miners. This story helped to puch Bret Harte to international prominence as a writer, and contains a veritable cornucopia of descriptive words- a great tool for learning and expanding your literary horizons.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of 1001 classic short stories, The Storytellers. |
| 0:26.8 | This one titled The Luck of Roaring Camp by Brett Hart. |
| 0:30.8 | It's a classic short story about a group of grizzled miners in a gold mining camp |
| 0:34.9 | that do their best to raise an orphaned baby. This short story by |
| 0:39.2 | Brett Hart captured the excitement of California in the gold rush days and helped propel Hart to fame. |
| 0:45.1 | A Thomas Edison movie by the same name was released in 1910. And now our story, The Luck of Roaring |
| 0:52.3 | Camp by Brett Hart. There was commotion in Roaring Camp. |
| 0:57.8 | It could not have been a fight. For in 1865, that was not novel enough to have called together |
| 1:03.0 | the entire settlement. The ditches and claims were not only deserted, but Tuttle's grocery had |
| 1:08.5 | contributed its gamblers, who, it will be remembered, calmly continued their game, the day that French Pete and Kanaka Joe shot each other to death over the bar in the front room. |
| 1:19.7 | The whole camp was collected before a rude cabin on the outer edge of the clearing. |
| 1:24.4 | Conversation was carried on in a low tone, but the name of a woman was frequently repeated. It was a name familiar enough in the clearing. Conversation was carried on in a low tone, but the name of a woman was frequently |
| 1:28.9 | repeated. It was a name familiar enough in the camp, Cherokee Sal. Perhaps the less said of her, |
| 1:35.5 | the better. She was a course, and it is to be feared, a very sinful woman. But at that time, |
| 1:41.6 | she was the only woman in Roaring Camp, and was just then lying in sore |
| 1:45.6 | extremity, when she most needed the ministration of her own sex. Disillute, abandoned, and |
| 1:52.1 | irreclamable. She was yet suffering a martyrdom hard enough to bear, even when veiled by |
| 1:57.5 | sympathizing womanhood, but now terrible in her loneliness. The primal curse had |
| 2:02.4 | come to her in that original isolation, which must have made the punishment of the first |
| 2:06.4 | transgression so dreadful. It was, perhaps, part of the expiation of her sin, that, at a moment |
| 2:13.3 | when she most lacked her own sex's intuitive tenderness and care. She met only the half-contemptuous |
| 2:19.2 | faces of her masculine associates. Yet a few of the spectators were, I think, touched by her |
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