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) ⓘ