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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Main Author: Corbett, Christopher
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2010], ©2010.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Bemis, Polly, > 1853-1933.
Chinese American women > History.
Chinese > California > San Francisco.
Chinese > Idaho.
California > Gold discoveries.
Physical Description:xvii, 218 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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.