Poker Flat (fictional town)

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Poker Flat is a fictional California mining town in Bret Harte’s Western short stories, best known as the morally rigid community that banishes the protagonists in “The Outcasts of Poker Flat.”

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional town
literary setting
appearsInGenre Western fiction
local color fiction
appearsInShortStoryCollection The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches
appearsInWorkBy Bret Harte
banishesCharacter Duchess
John Oakhurst
Mother Shipton
Uncle Billy
banishmentReason desire to reform the town
perceived immorality
country United States
createdBy Bret Harte
economicBasis gold mining
firstAppearanceDate 1869
firstAppearanceIn The Outcasts of Poker Flat
hasCharacteristic morally rigid
puritanical
vigilante justice
hasFictionalFunction mining town
moral community
hasMedium prose
hasSocialType frontier community
languageOfWork English
literaryMovement American Realism
linked to: American realism

Regionalism
locatedIn California
Sierra Nevada
narrativeRole contrast to the humanity of the outcasts
symbol of rigid social morality
settingOf The Outcasts of Poker Flat
timePeriod California Gold Rush
usedToExploreTheme exile
hypocrisy
moral judgment
redemption

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The Outcasts of Poker Flat hasTitleCharacter Poker Flat (fictional town)