George H. Devol was the greatest riverboat gambler in the history of the Mississippi. Born in Ohio in 1829, he ran away from home and worked as a cabin boy at a
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 hundred
Excerpt from Forty Years a Gambler: On the Mississippi The author of this book has written the stories as they would recur to his memory, and no effort has been