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 ...

Christopher Corbett, pictured in his Baltimore, Md., office among his research materials, has just published a non-fiction book about Chinese immigration during the Gold Rush called “Poker Bride.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s astonishing to think that there was once a time when news from California could reach Hong Kong long before it came to the attention of the president of the United States, but that’s exactly what ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...