A Drift from Redwood Camp
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    A Drift from Redwood Camp
                                            
                            By Bret Harte
                            
                                24 Oct, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        One of Bret Harte's chief strengths as an author was his ability to focus on the outcasts of society and find a way to make them sympathetic. In this short story, the despised Elijah Martin escapes from a brush with death only to find his whole life 
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                                                One of Bret Harte's chief strengths as an author was his ability to focus on the outcasts of society and find a way to make them sympathetic. In this short story, the despised Elijah Martin escapes from a brush with death only to find his whole life transformed. Less