Born in 1839, died in 1902; removed to California in 1854,
where in 1868 he founded _The Overland Monthly_; professor
in the University of California in 1870; removed to New York
in 1871; consul at Crefeld, Germany, in 1878-80, and at
Glasgow in 1880-85; published "The Luck of Roaring Camp" in
1868, "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" in 1869, "Poems" in 1871,
"Stories of the Sierras" in 1872, "Tales of the Argonauts"
in 1875, "Gabriel Conroy" in 1876, "Two Men of Sandy Bar" (a
play) in 1877, "A Phyllis of the Sierras" in 1888.
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