The Outcasts Of Poker Flat And Other Tales

Description for THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT AND OTHER TALES by Bret Harte:

The glorious fringe-inhabitants of Gold Rush California---the slick gambles, the impetuous but soft-hearted dance-hall girls, the mining camp eccentrics---are immortalized in these classic chronicles of the Far West of the nineteenth century.

THE RIGHT EYE OF THE COMMANDER; M'LISS: AN IDYL OF RED MOUNTAIN; THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP; THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT; TENESSEE'S PARTNER; THE IDYL OF RED GULCH; BROWN OF CALAVERAS; MIGGLES; HOW SANTA CLAUS CAME TO SIMPSON'S BAR; MRS. SKAGG'S HUSBANDS; WAN LEE, THE PAGAN; A PASSAGE IN THE LIFE OF MR. JOHN OAKHURST; AN INGENUE OF THE SIERRAS AND A PROTEGEE OF JACK HAMLIN'S