A Ship of '49 is a novel written by Bret Harte, an American author and poet who is known for his stories about life in the American West during the late 1800s. The story is set in California during the Gold Rush of 1849, and follows the journey of a group of people who are traveling to San Francisco in search of gold.The main character of the story is a young man named Jack Brace, who is traveling on a ship called the Excelsior. Along with Jack, there...