American Gambling and Gamblers: Fools of Fortune
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By John P. Quinn
5 Mar, 2019
A professional gambler, the "sharp" John Philip Quinn writes not only a strong manifesto against gambling, but a vivid, comprehensive, hands-on history of the American gambling. Chicago, St. Louis, New York, Newport, San Francisco, New Orleans, Milwa
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A professional gambler, the "sharp" John Philip Quinn writes not only a strong manifesto against gambling, but a vivid, comprehensive, hands-on history of the American gambling. Chicago, St. Louis, New York, Newport, San Francisco, New Orleans, Milwaukee, Saratoga, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Mobile, Charleston, Austin, Hartford, Quebec, Kansas City, Buffalo, and more; the secrets and tricks of Faro, Poker, Rouge et Noir, Roulette, Keno, Seven-Up, Casino, Euchre, Cribbage, Twenty-One, Hieronymus, Chuck-a-Luck, Craps, Mustang, Grand Hazard; the money-making schemes at fairs and circuses, with the Needle-Wheel, the Corona, the Wheel-of-Fortune, the Squeeze Spindle, the Tivoli, the Jenny Wheel, and so on.
Be prepared for a wild ride; and get ready to meet the sharps and the flats; the suckers; shell-men and cappers; ropers, steerers and confederates; blacklegs; top-stock gamblers and broken-down gamblers; pluggers, chippers and mud-hens, pidgeon-pluckers, scalpers and plungers, bulls and bears. Less
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- 4313.236 KB
- 566
- Public Domain Books
- English
- 978-1539851868
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