Poker Jim, Gentleman and other Tales and Sketches

“Poker Jim.” Only four of the dozen stories collected in this volume are related to the West. The long title story, “Poker Jim, Gentleman” is set in 1860s California. The narrator, William Weymouth, is a young doctor with a medical degree from back East.


He settles at Jacksonville, a mining camp, on the Tuolomne River. Called to remove a bullet from a man shot in a duel, he meets the “Jim” of the title.  New in Jacksonville, Jim plies his trade as a gambler and brings his Spanish wife and child to live with him.