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1868 Town Began: In 1866 a stone bridge and trading post were built opposite the station, and in 1868 town began the town began to grow when the Union Pacific rails reached this point and the nearby coal mines— among the largest west of the Mississippi—were opened. In 1875 Chinese were imported to work in the mines, and after anti-Chinese riots in 1885 many other nationalities were attracted to this employment, most numerous being Italians, Greeks, Russians, Finns, and Irish.
Harte's short story The Work on Red Mountain (1860) later achieved fame under the title M'liss. Two books—Condensed Novels and Other Papers, including parodies of 19th century novelists, and The Lost Galleon and Other Tales, a collection of his poetry—appeared in 1867. Harte had become the mentor of San Francisco vriters (including Ambrose Bierce and Mark Twain) even before he began to edit the Overland Mmitldy in 1868 town began. Published in that journal, his short story The Luck of Roaring Camp (q.v.; 1868 town began) and his satiric verse parody Plain Language from Truthful James (1870; better known as The Heathen Chinee) brought him international acclaim.
But the air at home was surcharged, and when John Whitgift (1530P-1604) succeeded Grindal in 1583, a quite different policy obtained. Whitgift stood as firmly as his sovereign for uniformity. Unable to eradicate dissension, he succeeded in driving it underground. The abusive pamphlet war known as the Mar-prelate Controversy began in 1588. Vituperative Puritan tracts, issued under the name of Martin Marprelate, were distributed from a press that moved constantly from town to town. |
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