A classic in gambling literature.
- Introductory
- Chapter I: Early Days
- Chapter II: Early Days
- Chapter III: Profession
- Chapter IV: The Club
- Chapter V: Captain William Smith
- Chapter VI: Diplomacy
- Chapter VII: Major George Jenks
- Chapter VIII: Faro
- Chapter IX: Departure
- Chapter X: Phantoms Of The Memory
- Chapter XI: Wheeling
- Chapter XII: "On To Richmond"
- Chapter XIII: The Horse
- Chapter XIV: Washington City
- Chapter XV: Inventors
- Chapter XVI: Incubi
- Chapter XVII: Sharpers
- Chapter XVIII: Scenes At Long Branch
- Chapter XIX: Second-Class "Skinning-Houses"
- Chapter XX: Sharpers
- Chapter XXI: Biographical Sketches
- Chapter XXII: New York
- Chapter XXIII: Squaring Accounts
- Chapter XXIV: In The Lock-Up
- Chapter XXV: Boxers
- Chapter XXVI: Persecution
- Chapter XXVII: Prejudices
- Chapter XXVIII: Wolf-Traps
- Chapter XXIX: Wolf-Traps - Continued
- Chapter XXX: Sharp Practice
- Chapter XXXI: Lexington Races
- Chapter XXXII: The Flight
- Chapter XXXIII: The Mississippi
- Chapter XXXIV: RIVER Sharpers
- Chapter XXXV: Three-Card Monte Throwers
- Chapter XXXVI: The Hog-Drover
- Chapter XXXVII: Mobile
- Chapter XXXVIII: A "Nigger In The Fence"
- Chapter XXXIX: The "Nigger" Gets Out
1st edition 1873, 492 pages; PDF 370 pages.
word count: 200790 which is equivalent to 803 standard pages of text
