Outcasts of Poker Flats

by Bret Harte

Paperback, 1961

Status

Available

Call number

813.4

Collection

Publication

Signet Classics (1961), Paperback, 300 pages

Description

Upon waking from their overnight camp in the mountains, four exiles from Poker Flat and a young couple traveling to the town face a snowstorm with limited provisions.

User reviews

LibraryThing member ecataldi
I picked this title solely because one of the narrators is Robert Forester and I am obsessed with anything he narrates. The Outcasts of Poker Flats is a collection of short stories and poems set in the wild west. An unlucky party caught in a mountain blizzard, an orphaned baby in an all male camp,
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Tennessee's partner and more. I was not overly impressed with any of the stories glamorizing, miners, gamblers, and lawless men. This collection was written in the nineteenth century which explains the machismo and degradation of women, but doesn't excuse it. Some of the narrators did no favors to this audiobook. I honestly may have enjoyed it more had I actually read it.
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Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1869-01

Physical description

299 p.; 7 inches

ISBN

0451523466 / 9780451523464

Local notes

Right Eye of the Commander. M'Liss: An Idyl of Red Mountain. Luck of Roaring Camp. Outcasts of Poker Flat. Tennessee's Partner. Idyl of Red Gulch. Brown of Calaveras. Miggles. How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar. Mrs Skagg's Husbands. Wan Lee, the Pagan. Passage in the Life of Mr John Oakhurt. An Ingenue of the Sierras. A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's
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