Green, Jonathan H.:

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THE SECRET BAND OF BROTHERS; OR, THE AMERICAN OUTLAWS. First edition of one of the classics in American gambling literature. The author is Jonathan H. Green (1813–87), renowned professional gambler and, later, reformer. Green was a gambler who became a crusader against illegal gambling, and this work is a lurid expose of crime, cheating, and vice. In the introduction Green says that this work is unlike any other he has ever written—unlike, in fact, any work ever before published in America: "It is not a mere exposure of gambling, nor yet an attack on the character of particular gamblers. It is a revelation of wide-spread organization - pledged to gambling, theft, and villainy of all kinds." Howes calls this a sequel to Green's Gambling Unmasked. "Exposé of a secret organization of gamblers and criminals. Pages 147-62 relate his trip to Texas and the Choctaws in 1833" - Eberstadt.A rare work on early American gambling.

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