Chapter 11 THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT[ ] (1869)

[* Used by permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton

Mifflin Company, publishers of Bret Harte's Works.]

BY BRET HARTE (1836-1902)

[Setting. The group tragedy enacted in this story took place between November 23 and December 7, 1850, on the road from Poker Flat to Sandy Bar, in Sierra County, California. The time and place a