Corbett, Christopher, <br/><br/>
The poker bride :  the first Chinese in the Wild West / 
Christopher Corbett. 
 - First edition 
 - xvii, 218 pages :  illustrations, portraits ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-218). 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780802119094 0802119093 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010280727 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Bemis, Polly, 1853-1933 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Chinese American women--History.<br/>Chinese--California--San Francisco.<br/>Chinese--Idaho.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>California--Gold discoveries.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>973/.04951/0092 979.004951