 | f. d. richards - 1867 - 844 pages
...up of desperadoes, who spend their time in gambling of all kinds, from cards to keno and faro. D.iy and night the ''saloons" are in full blast, and sums...hundred change hands with a rapidity astonishing to ore who is not accustomed to the recklessness which this wild frontier Mi- invariably begets. To-day... | |
 | Dee Brown - History - 2001 - 324 pages
...their time in gambling of all kinds, from cards to keno to faro. Day HEAR THAT LONESOME WHISTLE BLOW and night the saloons are in full blast, and sums...which their wild frontier life invariably begets." A traveler passing through North Platte that winter noted laconically: "Law is unknown here." And then... | |
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BLOW and night the saloons are in full blast, and sums of money varying from five dollars to fifty and even one hundred change hands with a rapidity astonishing to one who is not accustomed to the recklessness which their wild frontier life invariably... 