For 10 points, name this writer known for "The Outcasts of Poker Flat."
After editing Outcropping, a book of Western verse, he was appointed editor of the new Overland Monthly magazine. His poem "Plain language from Truthful James" was published accidentally and came to be known by the name "The Heathen Chinee" [chy-NEE] in the same year as he published East and West Poems. The title character tries to save his best friend from the noose in the town of Sandy Bar in "Tennessee's Partner," while the birth of the title character changes the lives of Stumpy and Kentuck in The "Luck of Roaring Camp," but he is best known for a story about John Oakhurst's exile in the company of two prostitutes and a drunken thief. For 10 points, name this writer known for "The Outcasts of Poker Flat."
After editing Outcropping, a book of Western verse, he was appointed editor of the new Overland Monthly magazine.
Francis Bret {Harte}