Description
Card Sharps and Bucket Shops
Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America
Author: Fabian Ann
Language: EnglishSubject for Card Sharps and Bucket Shops:
Keywords
Young Men; National Police Gazette; Card Sharps; Bucket Shops; Common Language; Recreational Gambling; Berkeley Springs; John Pintard; Ex-Coloured Man; Dream Books; Professional Gamblers; Evil Gamblers; Freedman’s Bank; Policy Players; Slave Stealers; Subtreasury Plan; Secret Band; Tavern Keepers; Card Tricks; Gentry Culture; Temperance Reformers; Real Wheat; Gambling Transactions; Vital Substitute; Gambler’s Knowledge
Publication date: 04-1999
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 06-2017
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Hardback
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Ann Fabian teaches History at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She is the author of the forthcoming PlainUnvarnished Tales: True Stories from Nineteenth-CenturyAmerica.