Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi
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A CABIN BOY IN 1839; COULD STEAL CARDS AND CHEAT THE BOYS AT ELEVEN;
STOCK A DECK AT FOURTEEN; BESTED SOLDIERS ON THE RIO GRANDE DURING
THE MEXICAN WAR; WON HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS FROM PAYMASTERS, COTTON
BUYERS, DEFAULTERS, AND THIEVES; FOUGHT MORE ROUGH-AND-TUMBLE FIGHTS
THAN ANY MAN IN AMERICA, AND WAS THE MOST DARING GAMBLER IN THE
WORLD.
