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FORTY YEARS A GAMBLER ON THE MISSISSIPPI
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About FORTY YEARS A GAMBLER ON THE MISSISSIPPI
A cabin boy in 1839; could steal cards and cheat the boys at eleven; stock a deck at fourteen; bested soldiers on the Rio Grande during the Mexican war; won hundreds of thousands from paymasters, cotton buyers, defaulters, and thieves; fought more rough-and-tumble fights than any man in America, and was the most daring gambler in the world. Inside these pages Devol recounts stories on long extinct gambling games such as Faro, Rondo, Red & Black and many more. This is an excellent source for gambling history. He captures the chronicle of the Mississippi River from the unique perspective of a hard bitten gambling man. This is certainly a usual and important account of American life on its most important highway in the 19th century.
