Knights Of The Green Cloth. The Saga Of The Frontier Gamblers.

ROBERT K. DEARMENT

Publication: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982, Norman

First edition. 8vo. Signed and dated by the author on the half title page. Green cloth, titles stamped in gold gilt on the spine, xiv, 423 pp., acknowledgments, illustrated, plates, portraits, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Stories of some of the notorious "knights of the green cloth" and famous gambling halls. Much on Rowdy Joe Lowe, Ben Thompson, King Fisher, John Behan, Doc Holliday, Luke Short, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Lottie Deno, Alice Ivers (Poker Alice), Soapy Smith, Wild Bill Hickok, and many others. Fine, bright, tight copy in a lightly rubbed dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and corners.

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