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Title The poker bride : the first Chinese in the Wild West / Christopher Corbett.
Author Corbett, Christopher.
Publication Info. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2010.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Fourth Floor  973.04951 COR    Check Shelves
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Fourth Floor  973.04951 COR    Check Shelves
Edition 1st ed.
Description xvii, 218 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-218).
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.
Subject Bemis, Polly, 1853-1933.
Chinese American women -- History.
California -- Gold discoveries.
Chinese -- Idaho.
ISBN 0802119093 : $24.00
9780802119094 : $24.00
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