Regionalism and Local Color
http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/regionalism.html
A helpful guide to Regionalism and Local Color, and their influences on the literature of the American South and West.
The Gold Rush of 1849
http://www.history.com/topics/gold-rush-of-1849
A portal to information about the history of the gold mining phenomenon that influenced Harte's mythologies of the American West, especially "The Outcasts of Poker Flat."
