Western Classics No. Three



Tennessee's Partner



"Both were fearless types of a civilization that in the seventeenth
century would have been called heroic, but in the nineteenth simply
'reckless.'"



Tennessee's Partner By Bret Harte, Including An Introduction By William
Dallam Armes.





The Introduction



When Marshall's discovery caused a sudden influx of thousands of
adventurers from all classes and almost all countries, the conditions of
government in California were almost the worst possible. Though the
Mexican system was unpopular and the Mexican law practically unknown,
until other provision was made by congress, they had to continue in