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  1. Blacklegs, card sharps, and confidence men
    nineteenth-century Mississippi River gambling stories
    Contributor: Smith, Thomas Ruys
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    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... more

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    Bibliothek der Hochschule Mainz, Untergeschoss
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    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 elegance; carry gold chronometers in their pockets; and swear with the most genteel precision. ... Every where throughout the valley, these mistletoe gentry are called by the original, if not altogether classic, cognomen of æBlack-legs.Æ In Blacklegs, Card Sharps, and Confidence Men, Thomas Ruy.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Smith, Thomas Ruys
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780807137369; 0807137367
    Series: Southern literary studies
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 271 pages)
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  2. Blacklegs, card sharps, and confidence men
    nineteenth-century Mississippi River gambling stories
    Published: c2010
    Publisher:  Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge

    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0807137367; 9780807137369
    Series: Southern literary studies
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; American literature; Gamblers; Gambling on river boats; Manners and customs; River life; Geschichte; Gamblers; Gambling on river boats; River life; American literature; American literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 271 p.)
    Notes:

    From Social relations in our Southern states / Daniel R. Hundley -- The Vicksburg tragedy -- From Col. Crockett's exploits and adventures in Texas / Richard Penn Smith -- Putting a black-leg on shore / Benjamin Drake -- From Richard Hurdis, or, The avenger of blood / William Gilmore Simms -- From Excursion through the slave states / George W. Featherstonhaugh / Sketches from the Spirit of the times -- The bivouac, or, A night at the mouth of the Ohio, a sketch of Western voyaging / Joseph Holt Ingraham -- Taking good advice / Madison Tensas (Henry Clay Lewis) -- From Zilla Fitz James, the female bandit of the South-west / Zilla Fitz James-- Breaking a bank / Solomon Smith -- Dialogue between a gambler and a travelling agent / Jonathan Green -- How Dodge 'dodged' the sharpers / M.G. Lewis -- The gamblers outwitted / Emerson Bennett -- From The confidence-man: his masquerade / Herman Melville -- From Clotel, or, The president's daughter / William Wells Brown -- From Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb / Henry Bibb -- From The white slave, or, Memoirs of a fugitive / Richard Hildreth -- From Hatchie, the guardian slave, or, The heiress of Bellevue / Warren T. Ashton (Rev. William Taylor Adams) -- The pilot's story / William Dean Howells -- From The end of the world: a love story / Edward Eggleston -- From Wanderings of a vagabond: an autobiography / John Morris (John O'Connor) -- The professor's yarn / Mark Twain -- From Old times on the upper Mississippi / George Byron Merrick -- From Flush Fred's full hand, or, Life and strife in Louisiana / Edward Willett -- From Forty years a gambler on the Mississippi / George Devol -- Three portraits of 'Canada' Bill Jones / Allan Pinkerton, Mason Long, George Devol -- From Poker stories / compiled by J.F.B. Lillard

    Includes bibliographical references