$50 for a Poke

Gus offers Lorrie $50 for a “poke” in Part One of Lonesome Dove. That’s 25 times her previously going rate and the equivalent of $1,200 in inflation-adjusted 2024 dollars — quite a sum for a liveryman/horse thief. He must have figured it might be his last opportunity and he’d have to offer her a lot for her to even entertain the idea of betraying her new love, Jake.