The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the Wild West by Christopher Corbett [in San Francisco Chronicle]
20 Mar, by Adult Readers, Chinese American, Nonfiction, Repost
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The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the Wild West, by Christopher Corbett, is an oddly disturbing read, not so much for its content but for its publication as a historical text about Asian American pioneer woman Polly Bemis, Corbett's eponymous "poker bride." Problems with historical...