The poker bride : the first Chinese in the Wild West / Christopher Corbett.
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 kno...
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New York, NY :
Atlantic Monthly Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West,
[2010], ©2010.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 218 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
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