Contents: / Colonel Starbottles Client / The Postmistress Of Laurel Run / A Night At "Hays" / Johnsons "Old Woman" / The New Assistant At Pine Clearing School / In A Pioneer Restaurant / A Treasure Of The Galleon / Out Of A Pioneers Trunk / The Ghosts Of Stukeley Castle
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.
It was a season of unequalled prosperity in Devils Ford. The half a dozen cabins scattered along the banks of the North Fork, as if by some overflow of that capricious river, had become augmented during a week of fierce excitement by twenty or thirty others, that were huddled together on the narrow gorge of Devils Spur,
Contents: / A Protegee Of Jack Hamlins / An Ingenue Of The Sierras / The Reformation Of James Reddy / The Heir Of The Mchulishes / An Episode Of West Woodlands / The Home-Coming Of Jim Wilkes
Contents: / A Venerable Impostor / From A Balcony / Melons / Surprising Adventures Of Master Charles Summerton / Sidewalkings / A Boys Dog / Charitable Reminiscences / "Seeing The Steamer Off" / Neighborhoods I Have Moved From / My Suburban Residence / On A Vulgar Little Boy / Waiting For The Ship
Contents: / The Legend Of Monte Del Diablo / The Adventure Of Padre Vincentio / The Legend Of Devils Point / The Devil And The Broker / The Ogress Of Silver Land / The Ruins Of San Francisco / A Nigh
Contents: / The Ancestors Of Peter Atherly / Two Americans / The Judgment Of Bolinas Plain / The Strange Experience Of Alkali Dick / A Night On The Divide / The Youngest Prospector In Calaveras / A T
