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Harry Granice

d. 1915

A colorful figure of early California journalism, he is best known today for a vivid firsthand account of frontier danger and pursuit. His surviving work blends memoir, sensational storytelling, and a strong sense of personal drama.

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Hunted Down; or, Five Days in the Fog A Thrilling Narrative of the Escape of Young Granice from a Drunken, Infuriated Mob

Hunted Down; or, Five Days in the Fog A Thrilling Narrative of the Escape of Young Granice from a Drunken, Infuriated Mob

by Harry Granice

About the author

Born in 1849 and dying in 1915, Harry Granice was an American writer and newspaper man whose life seems to have been as eventful as his book. He is associated with California journalism, and later accounts of his career say he founded the weekly San Rafael Independent in 1900, a paper that grew into a daily under the management of his daughter, Celeste Granice Murphy.

Granice is remembered in the public-domain record mainly for Hunted Down; or, Five Days in the Fog (1875), also listed as Five Days in the Fog. The book is presented as a personal narrative built around the aftermath of a shooting in which he said he was defending his mother's honor. That mix of confession, adventure, and frontier atmosphere gives the work its lasting curiosity.

Some biographical details about him are scattered and come from library, publishing, and memorial records rather than a full modern biography, so parts of his life remain hazy. Even so, the surviving sources show a writer rooted in nineteenth-century California print culture, with one dramatic book and a newspaper legacy that outlived him.