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The story takes place in a Californian community known as Poker Flat, near the town of La Porte. Following the loss of several thousand dollars and two horses, and the death of a notable resident, the town has formed a secret committee to rid itself of any "improper" people, hanging two and banishing others.
A group of armed men, meant specifically to intimidate Oakhurst, marches the outcasts out of Poker Flat. There are four outcasts in the group: a young lady who is “familiarly known as ‘ The Duchess ,’” a man called Uncle Billy who is drunkard and “suspected sluice-robber,” and woman who has somehow earned the nickname Mother Shipton.
The Outcasts of Poker Flat is about a vigilante committee which sets out to save the town from its moral decline by rounding up "undesirables." It is one of Harte's best known stories about the West, first published in January 1869 in the magazine Overland Monthly.
JOHN Oakhurst, gambler, stepped into the main street of Poker Flat on the morning of the twenty-third of November, 1850, he was conscious of a change in its moral atmosphere since the preceding night.
‘The Outcasts of Poker Flat’ is a short story by the American writer Bret Harte (1836-1902), published in 1869 in the Overland Monthly magazine. The story helped to confirm Harte’s reputation as an exciting new talent, and by 1871 he was the highest-paid writer in the country.
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On the morning of November 23, 1850, a gambler named John Oakhurst walks through Poker Flat, a small mining town in the American West. The town’s “moral atmosphere” has changed, and Oakhurst knows that the town is “after somebody.”
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat, short story by Bret Harte, first published in the magazine Overland Monthly in 1869 and later published in the collection The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches (1870). It has become a minor classic of American literature.
The Outcasts of Poker Flat. (2009-10, rev. 2012) Chamber opera in one act after Bret Harte's short story, 70 minutes. Music and libretto by Andrew E. Simpson. Two whores, a gambler and a thief are marooned with two young lovers in a blizzard. Facing starvation, each becomes heroic, cowardly or dastardly.
