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Author : Bret Harte
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780871295477
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (954 download)
Download or read book The Outcasts of Poker Flat written by Bret Harte and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1902 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bret Harte
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8728377583
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (283 download)
Download or read book The Outcasts of Poker Flat written by Bret Harte and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the gambler, John Oakhurst, senses that he may have outstayed his welcome in the mining camp of Poker Flat, he sets off to find pastures new. Accompanied by the local drunk, Uncle Billy, and two prostitutes, he makes his way towards Sandy Bar. However, when things do not go according to plan, and the weather turns, Oakhurst must look deep inside himself to work out what to do. A gritty tale, riddled with tragedy and romance, ‘The Outcasts of Poker Flat’ does not spare the horses when it comes to depicting the difficulties faced by ordinary folk in the Old West. Born in New York, Bret Harte (1836 – 1902) was a prolific poet, author, and journalist. The son of one of the founders of the New York Stock Exchange, Harte’s education was erratic, and he left school at the age of 13. Four years later, he moved to California, trying out a number of jobs, including working as a miner and a journalist. After an unsuccessful stint as a stagecoach guard, he became a schoolteacher. Later, he was hired as an editor for ‘The Golden Era’ magazine. His piece on the Wiyot Massacre resulted in death threats, and Harte was forced to flee to San Francisco. There, he became a journalist for ‘The Atlantic Monthly’ and was instrumental in founding ‘The Californian’, and ‘The Overland Monthly’. The latter was to publish one of his most well-known stories, ‘The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches’. During his lifetime, Harte published more than 30 books.
Author : Martin Harris
Publisher : D&B Publishing
ISBN 13 : 191286200X
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Poker & Pop Culture written by Martin Harris and published by D&B Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-23 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduced shortly after the United States declared its independence, poker’s growth and development has paralleled that of America itself. As a gambling game with mass appeal, poker has been played by presidents and peasants, at kitchen tables and final tables, for matchsticks and millions. First came the hands, then came the stories – some true, some pure bluffs, and many in between. In Poker & Pop Culture: Telling the Story of America’s Favorite Card Game, Martin Harris shares these stories while chronicling poker’s progress from 19th-century steamboats and saloons to 21st-century virtual tables online, including: Poker on the Mississippi Poker in the Movies Poker in the Old West Poker on the Newsstand Poker in the Civil War Poker in Literature Poker on the Bookshelf Poker in Music Poker in the White House Poker on Television Poker During Wartime Poker on the Computer From Mark Twain to “Dogs Playing Poker” to W.C. Fields to John Wayne to A Streetcar Named Desire to the Cold War to Kenny Rogers to ESPN to Star Trek: The Next Generation and beyond, Poker & Pop Culture provides a comprehensive survey of cultural productions in which poker is of thematic importance, showing how the game’s portrayal in the mainstream has increased poker’s relevance to American history and shaped the way we think about the game and its significance.
Author : Bret Harte
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Tennessee's Partner written by Bret Harte and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tennessee's Partner" by Bret Harte is set in Sandy Bar, an Old West town, and focuses on two men, nicknamed "Tennessee" and "Tennessee's Partner." While Tennessee is a reckless gambler, his partner is humorless and practical. Despite their disparate personalities, they share a strong friendship that did not fail even when Tennessee was responsible for his partner's bride estranging him. When Tennessee blatantly tries to steal from a stranger, he is arrested and put on trial. Tennessee's Partner tries to stick up for his friend, saying that he might not agree with everything Tennessee does, but he still supports him.
Author : Axel Nissen
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617033599
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (335 download)
Download or read book Bret Harte written by Axel Nissen and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary Scharnhorst
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806132549
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (325 download)
Download or read book Bret Harte written by Gary Scharnhorst and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bret Harte was the best-known and highest paid writer in America in the early 1870s, yet his vexed attempts to earn a living by his pen led to the failure of his marriage and, in 1878, his departure for Europe. Gary Scharnhorst’s biography of Harte traces the growing commercial appeal of western fiction and drama on both sides of the Atlantic during the Gilded Age, a development in which Harte played a crucial role. Harte’s pioneering use of California local color in such stories as "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" challenged genteel assumptions about western writing and helped open eastern papers to contributions by Mark Twain and others. The popularity of Bret Harte’s writings was driven largely by a literary market that his western stories helped create. The first Harte biography in nearly seventy years to be written entirely from primary sources, this book documents Harte’s personal relationships and, in addition, his negotiations with various publishers, agents, and theatrical producers as he exploited popular interest in the American West.
Author : Bret Harte
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382169606
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (821 download)
Download or read book The Heathen Chinee written by Bret Harte and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-07 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : Bret Harte
Publisher : Signet Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780451515940
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (159 download)
Download or read book The Outcasts of Poker Flat and Other Tales written by Bret Harte and published by Signet Classics. This book was released on 1961 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1836- May 5, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. Bret Harte was born in Albany, New York, on August 25, 1836. He was named Francis Brett Hart after his great-grandfather, Francis Brett. When he was young his father, Henry, changed the spelling of the family name from Hart to Harte. Henry's father - Bret's grandfather - was Bernard Hart, an Orthodox Jewish immigrant who flourished as a merchant, becoming one of the founders of the New York Stock Exchange. Later, Francis preferred to be known by his middle name, but he spelled it with only one "t", becoming Bret Harte. An avid reader as a boy, Harte published his first work at age 11, a satirical poem titled "Autumn Musings," now lost. Rather than attracting praise, the poem resulted in his family's ridicule. As an adult, he recalled to a friend, "Such a shock was their ridicule to me that I wonder that I ever wrote another line of verse." His formal schooling ended when he was 13 in 1849. He moved to California in 1853, later working there in a number of capacities, including miner, teacher, messenger, and journalist. He spent part of his life in the northern California coastal town of Union (now Arcata), a settlement on Humboldt Bay that was established as a provisioning center for mining camps in the interior. The 1860 massacre of between 80 and 200 Wiyots at the village of Tuluwat was well documented historically and was reported in San Francisco and New York by Harte. When serving as assistant editor for the Northern Californian, Harte editorialized about the slayings while his boss, Stephen G. Whipple, was temporarily absent, leaving Harte in charge of the paper. Harte published a detailed account condemning the event, writing, "a more shocking and revolting spectacle never was exhibited to the eyes of a Christian and civilized people. Old women wrinkled and decrepit lay weltering in blood, their brains dashed out and dabbled with their long grey hair. Infants scarcely a span long, with their faces cloven with hatchets and their bodies ghastly with wounds." After he published the editorial, his life was threatened and he was forced to flee one month later. Harte quit his job and moved to San Francisco, where an anonymous letter published in a city paper is attributed to him, describing widespread community approval of the massacre. In addition, no one was ever brought to trial, despite the evidence of a planned attack and references to specific individuals, including a rancher named Larabee and other members of the unofficial militia called the Humboldt Volunteers.
Author : Bret Harte
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Miggles written by Bret Harte and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joan D. Vinge
Publisher : Roc
ISBN 13 : 9780451116536
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Outcasts of Heaven Belt written by Joan D. Vinge and published by Roc. This book was released on 1982-07-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443438375
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)
Download or read book A Horseman In The Sky written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a warm afternoon in the fall of 1861 Carter Druse is on picket duty on top of a cliff overlooking a valley where five regiments of the Union army are resting. The enemy is near, and the Union force means to surprise them in the night unless “accident or vigilance” forewarns them. Druse had been sleeping but wakes to see a man on a horse surveying the activity in the valley below. He sights his rifle, but hesitates when the rider turns and seems to look straight at him. In a crisis of conscience, Druse questions where his duty lies. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
Author : Bret Harte
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781482534979
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (349 download)
Download or read book The Indiscretion of Elsbeth written by Bret Harte and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-02-13 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A thousand pardons," said the former, smilingly, "but Herr Sanderman, the Ober-Inspector of Police, wishes to speak with you. I hope we are not intruding?" "Not NOW," said the American, dryly. The two exchanged a vacant and deprecating smile. "I have to ask only a few formal questions," said the Ober-Inspector in excellent but somewhat precise English, "to supplement the report which, as a stranger, you may not know is required by the police from the landlord in regard to the names and quality of his guests who are foreign to the town. You have a passport?"
Author : Lexi Post
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996798082
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Cowboy's Best Shot written by Lexi Post and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cowboy Hunter McKade is former military police and survived two tours overseas, but when he came home, his wife and his life as he knew it, disappeared in an instant. Now a security guard at Poker Flat Nudist Resort, he exists in his dark place, requiring little social interaction – until the night he breaks the barrier that separates him from her.As a former prostitute from a high-end bordello, Adriana Perez loves sex – any kind, anywhere – and her rules are few. Her new bartending job at Poker Flat gives her lots of hospitality opportunities, so why is someone trying to get her fired? Baffled, she gratefully accepts Hunter’s help and protection, and is more than willing to show him her appreciation. But the man has far too much control.Pushing Hunter beyond his boundaries becomes Adriana’s satisfying distraction. But the evidence against her mounts, and she ignores her gut to take matters into her own hands. Unfortunately, her best shot at fixing this may not be enough to save her job…or her heart.This is the 3rd book in the Poker Flat series that began with Cowboys Never Fold.
Author : Elizabeth Kamath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781578962402
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Lightning Lit and Comp written by Elizabeth Kamath and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jesse Stuart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780945084204
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (842 download)
Download or read book Split Cherry Tree written by Jesse Stuart and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410337227
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)
Download or read book A Study Guide for Bret Harte's Outcasts of Poker Flat written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Bret Harte's "Outcasts of Poker Flat," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Mary Jane McKinney
Publisher : Grammardog LLC
ISBN 13 : 160857007X
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Grammardog Guide to The Outcasts of Poker Flat written by Mary Jane McKinney and published by Grammardog LLC. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this short story. All sentences are from the story. Figurative language includes: "life was at best an uncertain game," "the accordion rose and fell in fitful spasms and long-drawn gasps." Sensory imagery includes: "dry, cold, bracing air," "a giggle," "a kiss," "freckled face," "stroked his mustaches," "blue eyes," "whiskey," "the reedy notes of the accordion," "long embrace," "voices," "footsteps."
