Aces and Eights: Poker in the Old West - Softcover

Estes, Ralph

 
9781493049622: Aces and Eights: Poker in the Old West
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1493049623 ISBN 13: 9781493049622
Verlag: G06-TwoDot, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Our images of the big names and places of the Old West often come from the tales of gunfights and violence that were sensationalized by dime novels and yellow journalism in the 19th century, and the myths that came from those stories live on today. But in reality many of these fabled characters of the Wild West were gamblers first and gunfighters second—more invested in poker than in the momentary fury of the shootout. Aces and Eights tells story of the role of poker in the lives of these legends, and offers a portrait of the places where they lived and frequently died. This book offers both the “facts” of these lives and the true tales of the game and the gamblers—and the entertaining “tall tales” that have survived to this day.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ralph Estes is the author of numerous scholarly books and articles as well as the popular work of fiction, My Own Story: The Autobiography of Billy the Kid. Professor Emeritus at The American University, Washington, DC., he now lives in New Mexico where he is the New Mexico State Chautauqua Troubadour, performing “Me and Billy” a one-man show about the outlaw Billy the Kid across the state.

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Verlag
G06-TwoDot
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1493049623
ISBN 13 
9781493049622
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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