Among the best of his short stories may be mentioned: _The Luck of Roaring Camp_ (August, 1868, _Overland_), _The Outcasts of Poker Flat_ (January, 1869, _Overland_), _Tennessee’s Partner_ (October, 1869, _Overland_), _Brown of Calaveras_ (March, 1870, _Overland_), _Flip: a California Romance_ (in _Flip, and Other Stories_, 1882), _Left Out on Lone Star Mountain_ (January, 1884, _Longman’s_), _An Ingenue of the Sierras_ (July, 1894, _McClure’s_), _The Bell-Ringer of Angel’s_ (in _The Bell-Ringer of Angel’s, and Other Stories_, 1894), _Chu Chu_ (in _The Bell-Ringer of Angel’s, and Other Stories_, 1894), _The Man and the Mountain_ (in _The Ancestors of Peter Atherly, and Other Tales_, 1897), _Salomy Jane’s Kiss_ (in _Stories in Light and Shadow_, 1898), _The Youngest Miss Piper_ (February, 1900, _Leslie’s Monthly_), _Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff_ (March, 1901, _Harper’s_), _A Mercury of the Foothills_ (July, 1901, _Cosmopolitan_), _Lanty Foster’s Mistake_ (December, 1901, _New England_), _An Ali Baba of the Sierras_ (January 4, 1902, _Saturday Evening Post_), and _Dick Boyle’s Business Card_ (in _Trent’s Trust, and Other Stories_, 1903). Among his notable collections of stories are: _The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches_ (1870), _Flip, and Other Stories_ (1882), _On the Frontier_ (1884), _Colonel Starbottle’s Client, and Some Other People_ (1892), _A Protégé of Jack Hamlin’s, and Other Stories_ (1894), _The Bell-Ringer of Angel’s, and Other Stories_ (1894), _The Ancestors of Peter Atherly, and Other Tales_ (1897), _Openings in the Old Trail_ (1902), and _Trent’s Trust, and Other Stories_ (1903). The titles and makeup of several of his collections were changed when they came to be arranged in the complete edition of his works.[5]