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by: Bret Harte
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.4
EAN: 9780930588885
ISBN: 0930588886
Label: Heyday Books
Manufacturer: Heyday Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 178
Publication Date: 1996-10
Publisher: Heyday Books
Sales Rank: 529955
Studio: Heyday Books
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These fifteen stories bring the California gold rush to life with a boisterous assemblage of rough-clad miners, pistol-packing preachers, iron-willed women, and philosophical gamblers.
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Rating: - On "Outcasts of Poker Flat"
From the familiar opening tableau to the token cast of characters, "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" had given me the false impression that it was fighting for the title of "The Quintessential Western". With a setting crucial to the plot, a regional dialect, and roles now iconic of the old "Wild West", the story is a prime selection for a study of local-color fiction-but the fact that it loosens the fetters of clich? with originality, allows it to transcend the genre. Unconcerned about "throwing the first ... Read More
Rating: - This is a well-rounded book about a man who kills himself.
John Oakhurst, on death row is outside in a nerby camp.Then one day, aparently killed himself.
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