I’m thinking of a town a bit like Deadwood(South Dakota) - full of men, drinking and gambling, without the moderating influence of ‘Sabbath’.
I hope there’s at least a plaque which mentions the short story. There’s not much there now - but I do spy one ambiguous human structure. Here it is on Google Earth, if you’re viewing this in Chrome. While there has been minor dispute over which Poker Flat Harte’s story is set in, it likely depicts the latter town in Sierra County because Harte’s characters are forced to traverse part of the Sierra mountain range. There are two towns that are known as “Poker Flat” in California: one that is located in Calaveras County and one that is located in the Sierra County near in the Sierra Nevada. The setting is a very specific November 22 1850, in a town called Poker Flat, in Northwestern California.
STORY WORLD OF “THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT” I really enjoyed most of it, though I want to rewrite the ending.Ĭontent note for suicide, with a large dose of sexism near the end. This story remains interesting to a contemporary audience for its reminder that we thought quite differently about what it takes to live a good life, just 120 years ago.
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