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This is the story of a boy who ran away from home to become a cabin boy on a Mississippi riverboat at age ten. At fourteen he could stack a deck of cards. And for forty years after this point in time he bilked people from all walks of live, businessmen, thieves, soldiers, ... This is the fascinating story of the King of the Riverboat Gamblers.
1st edition, 1887, Devol & Haines, Cincinnati; reprinted, ?, Applewood Books, Bedford, Massachusetts; 300 pages.
- A Religious Captain
- A Cold Deck
- A Woman With a Gun
- A Shrewd Trick
- A Paymaster's Bluff
- A Crazy Man
- A Good Night's Work
- A Euchre Hand
- A Good Stake-Holder
- A Mile Dash
- An Honorable Man
- A Bull Fight
- A Duck Hunt
- A Hard Head
- A Square Game
- A Coward
- Ancient Gambling
- Boyhood Days
- Blowing Up of the Princess
- Beat a Good Hand
- Butler in New Orleans
- Broke a Snap Game
- Before Breakfast
- Bill Would Gamble
- Bill's Present
- Caught a Sleeper
- Collared the Wrong Man
- Called a Gambler
- Control Over Suckers
- Caught Again
- Caught a Whale
- Caught a Defaulter
- Canada Bill
- Close Calls
- Cheap Jewelry
- Cold Steel
- Didn't Win the Bags
- Don't Dye Your Whiskers
- Didn't Win the Key
- Dick Roach and I
- Detectives and Watches
- Even the Judges Do It
- Eight Hundred Dollars Against a Pistol
- Fifty to the Barkeeper
- Fight With a Longshoreman
- Foot Race
- Forty Miles an Hour
- Fights
- Got Up Too Soon
- Got Off Between Stations
- Good Luck
- Governor Pinchback
- General Remarks
- George, the Butter
- Home Again
- Hard Boiled Eggs
- He Knew My Hand
- Her Eyes Were Opened
- He Never Knew
- He's One of Us
- How I Was Beat
- He's Not That Old
- Indians Can Play Poker
- It Made a Man of Him
- I Had Friends
- It Was Cold
- I Raised the Limit
- It Shook the Checks
- Jew vs. Jew
- Judge Devol
- Knocked Down $300
- Kickers
- Leaving Home
- Leap for Life
- Lost His Wife's Diamonds
- Lucky at Poker
- Lacked the Nerve
- Left in Time
- My First Keno
- My Jew Partner
- My First Love
- Marked Cards
- My Crooked Partner
- My Partner Alexander
- Married His Money
- My Cards
- My Little Partner
- Mules for Luck
- My Visit to Old Bill
- Monumental Gall
- Mule Thieves
- My Partner Won
- McCoole and Coburn
- Mobile
- Now a Gambler
- Nipped in the Bud
- No Play On This Boat
- No Money in Law
- Narrow Escapes
- No Good at Short Cards
- On the Circuit
- Put Ashore for Fighting
- Pittsburg's Best Man
- "Pranking" With a New Game
- Posing as Nic Longworth's Son
- Quick Work
- Red and Black
- Rattlesnake Jack
- Reduced the Price
- Saved My Partner's Life
- Sold Out by a Partner
- "Snap Games"
- Sinking of the Belle Zane
- Snaked the Wheel
- Stolen Money
- Signal Service
- Settled Our Hash
- She Kissed Me
- Salted Down
- Strategem
- Saved By His Wife
- "Short Stops"
- The Game of Rondo
- Ten Thousand in Counterfeit Money
- The Frenchman and the Horse Hair
- The Chicken Men and Their Silver
- The Hungry Man
- The Big Catfish
- The Sermon on the (Mount) Boat
- The Monte King
- The Daguerreotype Boat
- The Black Deck-Hand
- The Guergunsen Watch
- The Cotton Man
- Taught a Lesson
- They Paid the Costs
- The Boys From Texas
- The Quadroon Girl
- The Captain Spoiled the Game
- Too Sick to Fight
- The Gambler Disguised
- The Best Looking Sucker
- The Alligators
- The Big Sucker
- The Crazy Man
- The Brilliant Stone
- The Hidden Hand
- The Three Fives
- The Killer
- The Deck-Hand
- The Black (Leg) Cavalry
- The Paymaster's $3.500
- The U.S. Detective's Bluff
- The Young Man From New York
- The Yellow Jeans
- The Jack Fish
- The Black Man
- The Persuader
- The Lap-Robe
- The Preacher Away From Home
- The Cattle Buyer
- The Green Cow-Boy
- The Police Signal
- The Good Deacon
- The Natchez and the Lee
- The Trick Knife
- Two Forty on the Shell Road
- The Arkansas Killers
- The Englishman and His Gun
- Traveling Keno
- The Two Judges
- Tapped the Till
- War With Mexico
- Was in With the Judge
- Won and Lost
- With a Poker
- William Jones (Canada Bill)
word count: 109914 which is equivalent to 439 standard pages of text 
