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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Thomas Ruys
Other Authors: Smith, Thomas Ruys, 1979-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
River life.
Manners and customs.
Gambling on river boats.
Gamblers.
American literature.
Litterature americaine > Mississippi.
Litterature americaine > 19e siecle.
Vie fluviale > Mississippi (Fleuve) > Histoire > 19e siecle > Anthologies.
Jeux de hasard sur les bateaux > Mississippi (Fleuve) > Histoire > 19e siecle > Anthologies.
Joueurs (Jeux de hasard) > Mississippi (Fleuve) > Anthologies.
American literature > Mississippi.
American literature > 19th century.
River life > Mississippi River > History > 19th century > Literary collections.
Gambling on river boats > Mississippi River > History > 19th century > Literary collections.
Gamblers > Mississippi River > Literary collections.
Mississippi River Valley.
Mississippi River.
Mississippi.
Mississippi, Vallee du > Moeurs et coutumes > 19e siecle > Anthologies.
Mississippi River Valley > Social life and customs > 19th century > Literary collections.
Literary collections.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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