The townsman Kentuck and the boy die during a flash flood in that short story, "The Luck of Roaring Camp."
The title character of a narrative poem by this author claims that "he did not understand" the game being played when 24 jacks are discovered in his sleeves. In addition "Plain Language from Truthful James," also called "The Heathen Chinee," he wrote about a town with only one woman, whose men reform their lives to help raise her baby. The townsman Kentuck and the boy die during a flash flood in that short story, "The Luck of Roaring Camp." For 10 points, what editor of the Overland Monthly wrote about a professional gambler who commits suicide during a snowstorm, John Oakhurst, in "The Outcasts of Poker Flat"?
The title character of a narrative poem by this author claims that "he did not understand" the game being played when 24 jacks are discovered in his sleeves.
Bret {Harte}