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

Blacklegs, card sharps, and confidence men : nineteenth-century Mississippi River gambling stories / edited by Thomas Ruys Smith.

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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Other Authors: Smith, Thomas Ruys, 1979-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2010]
Series:Southern literary studies.
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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.
Mississippi River Valley > Social life and customs > 19th century > Literary collections.

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