On The Frontier (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Harte—who once rode shotgun on a stagecoach—knew the prospectors, gamblers, and gold-hearted frontier gals who won the West personally.

Here are three novellas about the American West by one of the country’s first literary superstars: “At the Mission of San Carmel,” “A Blue Grass Penelope,” and “Left Out on Lone Star Mountain.”