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The poker bride : the first Chinese in the Wild West / Christopher Corbett.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly PressDistributor: New York, NY : Publishers Group WestCopyright date: ©2010Edition: First editionDescription: xvii, 218 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • General
ISBN:
  • 9780802119094
  • 0802119093
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973/.04951/0092 22
  • 979.004951 22
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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Books Idaho Springs Public Library ANF 973.049 COR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3ISPL00300596W

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-218).

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.

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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