Our images of the big names and places of the Old West often come
from the tales of gunfights and violence that were sensationalized
by dime novels and yellow journalism in the 19th century and the
myths that came from those stories live on today. But in reality
many of these fabled characters of the Wild West were gamblers
first and gunfighters second- more invested in poker than in the
momentary fury of the shootout. Aces and Eights tells story of the
role of poker in the lives of these legends, and offers a portrait
of the places where they lived and frequently died. This book
offers both the "facts" of these lives and the true tales of the
game and the gamblers-and the entertaining "tall tales" that have
survived to this day.
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