Title:
The poker bride : the first Chinese in the Wild West / Christopher Corbett.
ISBN:
9780802119094
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2010]
©2010
Physical Description:
xvii, 218 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Contents:
Celestials and sojourners -- Chinatown -- Sold -- Coming into the Territory -- The end of the road-- Warrens -- Soiled doves -- Fond of playing cards -- The shooting affray in Warrens -- Saving Polly -- Last days on the river -- The caravan of the dead : ghosts of the Oro Fino.
Summary:
During the Gold Rush, a young Chinese concubine arrived by horse in Idaho gold country, where a white gambler soon won her in a poker game. She became Polly Bemis, the winner's legal, beloved wife. Polly emerged into public view only in 1923, a tiny old woman on horseback, her identity and story known only to a few old-timers.
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OCLC Number:
ocn426814534
Availability:
Eagan - Wescott~1
