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Blacklegs, card sharps, and confidence men : nineteenth-century Mississippi River gambling stories /

In 1836 Benjamin Drake, a midwestern writer of popular sketches for newspapers of the day, introduced his readers to a new and distinctly American rascal who rode the steamboats up and down the Mississippi and other western waterwaysthe riverboat gambler. These men, he recorded, dress with taste and...

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Други автори:	Smith, Thomas Ruys, 1979-
Формат:	Електронна книга
Език:	English
Публикувано:	Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, ℗♭2010.
Серия:	Southern literary studies.
Предмети:	1800-1899 Gamblers > Mississippi River > Literary collections. Gambling on river boats > Mississippi River > History > 19th century > Literary collections. River life > Mississippi River > History > 19th century > Literary collections. American literature > 19th century. American literature > Mississippi River Valley. LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General. American literature. Gamblers. Gambling on river boats. Manners and customs. River life. Mississippi River Valley > Social life and customs > 19th century > Literary collections. Mississippi River. Mississippi River Valley. Electronic books. History Literary collections
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From Social relations in our Southern states / Daniel R. Hundley
The Vicksburg tragedy
From Col. Crockett's exploits and adventures in Texas / Richard Penn Smith
Putting a black-leg on shore / Benjamin Drake
From Richard Hurdis, or, The avenger of blood / William Gilmore Simms
From Excursion through the slave states / George W. Featherstonhaugh / Sketches from the Spirit of the times
The bivouac, or, A night at the mouth of the Ohio, a sketch of Western voyaging / Joseph Holt Ingraham
Taking good advice / Madison Tensas (Henry Clay Lewis)
From Zilla Fitz James, the female bandit of the South-west / Zilla Fitz James
Breaking a bank / Solomon Smith
Dialogue between a gambler and a travelling agent / Jonathan Green
How Dodge 'dodged' the sharpers / M.G. Lewis
The gamblers outwitted / Emerson Bennett
From The confidence-man: his masquerade / Herman Melville
From Clotel, or, The president's daughter / William Wells Brown
From Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb / Henry Bibb
From The white slave, or, Memoirs of a fugitive / Richard Hildreth
From Hatchie, the guardian slave, or, The heiress of Bellevue / Warren T. Ashton (Rev. William Taylor Adams)
The pilot's story / William Dean Howells
From The end of the world: a love story / Edward Eggleston
From Wanderings of a vagabond: an autobiography / John Morris (John O'Connor)
The professor's yarn / Mark Twain
From Old times on the upper Mississippi / George Byron Merrick
From Flush Fred's full hand, or, Life and strife in Louisiana / Edward Willett
From Forty years a gambler on the Mississippi / George Devol
Three portraits of 'Canada' Bill Jones / Allan Pinkerton, Mason Long, George Devol
From Poker stories / compiled by J.F.B. Lillard.

Blacklegs, card sharps, and confidence men : nineteenth-century Mississippi River gambling stories /

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