American Gambling and Gamblers: Fools of Fortune

By John Philip Quinn

"The author of this work has traveled over most of the surface of the United States, and has set up the green tables in towns and cities in nearly every State in the Union, and in each and every instance he has been compelled to purchase official protection for his unlawful trade ; making payments in some cases to mayors; sometimes to the chiefs of police or city marshals, and on other occasions to individual policemen. In this way the authority that is invested with the duty of protecting society is suborned and prostituted to the vile end of extending official protection to the very crime which it is its sworn duty to exterminate." A professional gambler, the "sharp" John Philip Quinn writes not only a strong manifesto against gambling, but a vivid, comprehensive, hands-on history of the American gambling. Chicago, St. Louis, New York, Newport, San Francisco, New Orleans, Milwaukee, Saratoga, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Mobile, Charleston, Austin, Hartford, Quebec, Kansas City, Buffalo, and more; the secrets and tricks of Faro, Poker, Rouge et Noir, Roulette, Keno, Seven-Up, Casino, Euchre, Cribbage, Twenty-One, Hieronymus, Chuck-a-Luck, Craps, Mustang, Grand Hazard; the money-making schemes at fairs and circuses, with the Needle-Wheel, the Corona, the Wheel-of-Fortune, the Squeeze Spindle, the Tivoli, the Jenny Wheel, and so on. Be prepared for a wild ride; and get ready to meet the sharps and the flats; the suckers; shell-men and cappers; ropers, steerers and confederates; blacklegs; top-stock gamblers and broken-down gamblers; pluggers, chippers and mud-hens, pidgeon-pluckers, scalpers and plungers, bulls and bears. This is a professional reproduction of the book published in 1890.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1539851869
• ISBN13: 9781539851868
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 566 Pages
• Weight: 2.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 6.0"