The symbolism in this short story is that people are tend to be judge by their outer character but they don't tend to be what the society seems to think of them.
everyone dies except for simson who comes back with the rescue party..... the women and girls are frozen to death while oakhurst is found dead by a tree with a bullet in his heart
The problem in the Outcasts of Poker Flats is that residents of Poker Flat decided to kick out a group of undesirables who were: John Oakhurst, the Duchess, Mother Shipton, and Uncle Billy because...
the rescue party finds three dead bodies:piney and the duchess huddled together in the cabin and john oakhurst dead with a pistol by his side also with a card about oakhurst