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Tennessee's Partner
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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1995
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Tennessee's Partner, tale by
Bret Harte, published in the
Overland Monthly (1869) and in
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches (1870).
Tennessee, “known to be a gambler …suspected to be a thief,” works a mining claim at Sandy Bar, Cal., with his unnamed “Partner.” Although Tennessee once eloped with his Partner's wife, returning after she deserted him too, the Partner remains his affectionate friend. One day Tennessee is captured as a highway robber, and during an impromptu trial his Partner innocently offers his entire “stake” in return for Tennessee's life. This strengthens the determination of the “court” to punish the thief, and he is hanged from a nearby tree. Tennessee's Partner arrives with a donkey cart to claim the body of “the diseased,” and the crowd joins him in a rude but tender funeral ceremony. After this loss, the Partner declines in health. When he dies the following spring, he imagines that he sees his friend coming to welcome him.
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Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
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