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Title:

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

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

ix, 271 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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.
Mississippi River Valley--Social life and customs--19th century--Literary collections.
American literature--19th century.
American literature--Mississippi River Valley.

Other Authors:

Smith, Thomas Ruys, 1979- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006074926

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Southern literary studies

ISBN:

0807136360
9780807136362

OCLC:

(OCoLC)429472537

LCCN:

2009030241

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)