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The Eastvale Ladies’ Poker Circle $1.99 A short story from THE PRICE OF LOVE AND OTHER STORIES…. |
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Bret Harte’s Gold Rush: Outcasts of Poker Flat, the Luck of Roaring Camp, Tennessee’s Partner, & Other Favorites $2.69 These fifteen stories bring the California Gold Rush to life with their boisterous assemblage of rough-clad miners, pistol-packing preachers, iron-willed women, and philosophical gamblers. Theirs was an unpredictable world, filled with gold strikes and freak tragedies, when the wisdom of the gambler sometimes counted for more than that of the preacher; when normal rules were tossed aside and “the … |
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat $1.00 Bret Harte (1836-1902), an American author and poet, is best remembered for his stories of pioneer life in California. Born in Albany, New York, Harte moved to California in 1853 and worked as a miner, teacher, messenger and journalist. âThe Outcasts of Poker Flat,â his most well-known short story, was written in 1869. The group tragedy in the story took place in 1850 on the road from Po… |
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