Bret Harte, “The Luck of Roaring Camp”
—, “The Outcasts of Poker Flat”
Constance Fenimore Woolson, “Solomon”
—, “The Lady of Little Fishing”
Mark Twain, Old Times on the Mississippi
Hamlin Garland, “Up the Cooly”
Charles Egbert Craddock, “The Dancin’ Party at Harrison’s Cove”
Joel Chandler Harris, Selections from Uncle Remus and His Legends of the Old Plantation
Thomas Nelson Page, “Marse Chan: A Tale of Old Virginia”
Charles Chesnutt, “The Goophered Grapevine”
—, “Po’ Sandy”
Jack London, “The White Silence”
—, “The Son of the Wolf”
Zitkala-Sa, “The Soft-Hearted Sioux”
—, “The Trial Path”
George Washington Cable, “‘Tite Poulette”
—, “Madame Delphine”
Grace King, “The Little Convent Girl”
Kate Chopin, “At the ‘Cadian Ball”
—, “The Storm”
Alice Dunbar-Nelson, “Sister Josepha”
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, “A New England Nun”
—, “The Revolt of Mother”
Sarah Orne Jewett, “The Failure of David Berry”
—, Country of the Pointed Firs