Thanks. That was better than the sequel.
This is the original source:
The Scarlett story that will not die
by Wesley Pruden
Pruden on Politics
The Washington Times, November 18, 1994
I cannot find this online any more but I cut and pasted it into a Word file years ago. The whole column (a page and a half) is fascinating and would have made a wonderful sequel when fleshed out.
I’m sure I cannot post the whole column, but here is the last paragraph:
“The parson held a royal straight flush, drawing an ace, a king, a queen, a jack and a 10 in a suit of spades. This hand has not been seen since in either St. Louis or on the river, but the story has a good end. The girl became the matriarch of a leading family of her state. Scarlett got religion, too, and opened a home for half-breed foundlings in the Cherokee Nation, and died there in 1903. There is a marker in the Methodist cemetery in Tahlequah. Lying next to Scarlett is a stone of Batesville marble inscribed “Unknown, 1832-1901.” Spread beneath the dates is an engraving of a royal straight flush.”