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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library	E184.C5 C67 2010		AVAILABLE

Author	Corbett, Christopher.
Title	The poker bride : the first Chinese in the Wild West / Christopher Corbett.
Edition	First edition.
OCLC	426814534
ISBN	9780802119094
	0802119093
Publisher	New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2010]
	�2010
Description	xvii, 218 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
LC Subject heading/s	Bemis, Polly, 1853-1933.
	Chinese American women -- History.
	Chinese -- California -- San Francisco.
	Chinese -- Idaho.
	California -- Gold discoveries.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-218).
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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