Imagine “McCabe &Mrs. Miller,” “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” and “Deadwood” hand-stitched together and given a novel slant as a mini-epic of Chinese immigrant life. That suggests the polyglot ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NONFICTION The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the Wild West by Christopher Corbett, $26 During the 1849 California Gold Rush, thousands of Chinese workers ...

The Poker Bride is a different kind of Wild West story. From the gold rush in Northern California to a mining town in the highlands of Idaho, it follows the remarkable Polly Bennis. Smuggled from ...

This week in The Baltimore Sun, you’ll find a review of “The Poker Bride,” the new nonfiction book by UMBC journalism and English professor Christopher Corbett. It’s the tale of Old West legend Polly ...

BALTIMORE — Imagine "McCabe & Mrs. Miller," "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" and "Deadwood" hand-stitched together and given a novel slant as a mini-epic of Chinese immigrant life. That suggests the ...

Dominique Browning’s review of Christopher Corbett’s “Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the Wild West” (Feb. 21) discusses the “bride” of the title, Polly Bemis, as though she had just been unearthed ...

Imagine “McCabe & Mrs. Miller,” “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” and “Deadwood” hand-stitched together and given a novel slant as a mini-epic of Chinese immigrant life. That suggests the polyglot ...

This unruly book mixes a wonderful mystery- wrapped story with the larger picture of Chinese immigration into the American West. The central story concerns a young Chinese woman sold by her family in ...