The Luck of Roaring Camp by Bret Harte

"The Luck of Roaring Camp" is a short story by American author Bret Harte. It was first published in the August 1868 issue of the Overland Monthly and helped push Harte to international prominence. The story is about the birth of a baby boy in a 19th-century gold prospecting camp. The boy's mother, Cherokee Sal, dies in childbirth, so the men of Roaring Camp must raise it themselves. Believing the child to be a good luck charm, the miners christen the boy Thomas Luck.
Read by Michael Scott for his project ThoughtAudio, located at ThoughtAudio.com
Video made by Donald Miller for Great Books of the Western Tradition.