G. R. Williamson

Gambling Games of the Old West (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Gambling played a major role in the lives of the men that drove the western movement of Americans across the continent during the nineteenth century. Wherever there were men with money there was gambling. Saloons and gambling halls had a large array of games to entice customers to take a chance of walking out a winner - a very little chance.

The soft slap of cards, the click of dice, and the rattle of a roulette wheel greeted players as they walked into the top saloons of the 1880's. But what were the games of that era? How were they played and why are most of the games not found in casinos today?

Ante up and find out in this concise, compact book that takes you inside the frontier gambling saloons and gambling halls. Card games, dice games, and wheel games are vividly described with plenty of vintage photographs to illustrate how the games were played.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indian Head Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781386748274
• Artikelnr.: 54903711

Autorenporträt

About the author

G.R. Williamson is a historian, a western writer, and a born storyteller. His publishing background includes: three non-fiction books on the West, many magazine and newspaper articles, and several Western movie screenplays.

He is a member of the Western Writers of America and has been on frontier gambling panel discussions. He appeared in a television documentary on famous feuds in the Old West, specifically, the Royal Gorge War.

Williamson's home is in Kerrville, Texas, where he lives with his wife and their Chihuahua, "Shooter."

Storytelling comes naturally to Williamson, stemming from early childhood treks with his grandfather who was a master tale spinner. Growing up in the rough brasada of South Texas, he soaked up the Mexican legends and lore told by vaqueros around campfires. While at the University of Texas, he came under the influence of J. Frank Dobie and Walter Prescott Webb. From that point on, history and folklore became the focus of his studies and over the years he has amassed a large library that continues to grow.

He first published freelance articles in small newspapers and finally graduated to national magazines. His first try at screen writing resulted in a top writing award at the Golden Triangle Writers of Beaumont, Texas. The following year his second screenplay took the top award at the University of Texas -Arlington/Greater Dallas Writers' competition. In 2003 he won a top award at the Kern Film Festival in California.

Williamson interviewed Willis Newton in 1979 at his home in Uvalde, Texas. A few months later the outlaw died at age 90. Then, using transcripts of his interviews with Willis and others who knew the outlaw, first-hand accounts from eye witnesses, newspaper articles, police records, and trial proceedings, he wrote the true story of The Last Texas Outlaw-Willis Newton.

Williamson's western novel, Hell Bound, is a story of redemption. When the notorious faro dealer, Peyton Bonner, wins a Fort Worth hotel in a Denver poker game, he returns to Texas to claim his ownership. After being shot at the train station, he is forced to face the demons of his past.

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