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Blacklegs, Card Sharps, and Confidence Men : Nineteenth-Century Mississippi River Gambling Stories /

In Blacklegs, Card Sharps, and Confidence Men, Thomas Ruys Smith collects nineteenth-century stories, sketches, and book excerpts by a gallery of authors to create a comprehensive collection of writings about the riverboat gambler. The voices of canonized writers such as William Dean Howells, Herman...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Smith, Thomas Ruys
Otros Autores: Smith, Thomas Ruys, 1979-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The Many Lives of the Mississippi Gambler; Prologue; Early Days; Antebellum (Mis)Adventures; Turning the Tables; Gamblers and Slaves; Gilded Age Memories; Epilogue; Works Cited.