Word: gamblin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...owner at the other end of the table: "When we play, we play. When we work, we work." But the man persisted: "Lee, how about us all doin' a little quail huntin'? We'll take some baby dolls along, drink a little whisky, do a little gamblin'." "No drinking," Mishkin said...
...GAMBLIN' MAN (333 pp.)-Marl Sandoz-Clarkson N. Potter...
Gamblers & Colonizers. In half a dozen books (Old Jules, Slogum House} about settlers, cowmen and sheepherders of the 1870s, Nebraska's Mari Sandoz, 61, has tilled her own neat field well enough to become one of the better sod sisters. Her latest novel, despite its gamblin' title, is no card party. Her hero, John Jackson Cozad. was indeed a wily gentleman jackleg, but a green baize tabletop never confined his instinct for conquest. In 1872, when every faro den east of the Mississippi had barred its doors to his talent for bank breaking, Cozad made a down...