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Outcasts of Poker Flat Study Guide

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by Bret Harte
About 42 pages (12,515 words)
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Harte explains that the outcasts are expelled from Poker Flat by a "secret committee." Research the prevalence of vigilante justice in the American West and attempt to determine the extent to which such activities were viewed as a necessary element of the settlement process.

Although Harte is often described as a "frontier humorist," this story reads as a tragedy. Discuss how a writer may appeal to conflicting emotions, and Identify other authors who embrace a similar contradiction in style.

Considering the historical events of the 1860s, what messages in Harte's.....

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