Writing as a reformed gambler, Green lays bare the workings of a secret fraternity of card sharps, swindlers and worse that he says operated across the United States. His narrative follows riverboats and river towns such as Montgomery’s Point on the Mississippi, where marked decks, false friends and stolen horses ruin young men and widows alike.
A lurid, first-hand document of antebellum vice and the anti-gambling crusade, best read as one man’s exposé. Download the free EPUB.