| Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi Contributor(s): D'James, Christopher (Editor), Devol, George H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1541264029 ISBN-13: 9781541264021 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $9.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.24" W x 7.99" (0.58 lbs) 226 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Some men are born rascals. Others have rascality thrust upon them." George H Devol was an infamous gambler - though "cheat" would be a more accurate word. In his "Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi" Devol recounts dozens of anecdotes of how he plied his Three-Card Monte and sharp dealing skills to cheat the cheaters and/or suckers on steamboats and in river towns over more than four decades in the mid-nineteenth-century South. |