Salomy Jane is a 1914 silent Western-drama film based on Bret Harte's 1898 novella "Salomy Jane's Kiss" and Paul Armstrong's 1907 play based on Harte's story, Salomy Jane.
"Tell us just one fairy tale, S'lomy"
House Peters lifts Beatriz Michelena onto his horse
Image: Salomy Jane (1914) 1
Bret Harte was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he also wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches.
Bret Harte in 1872
Portrait of Bret Harte – oil painting by John Pettie (1884)
Portrait of Bret Harte by Napoleon Sarony (c. 1870). Housed at the National Portrait Gallery (United States)
19th-century publishers binding on a book by Bret Harte