Forty years a gambler on the Mississippi
George H. Devol's 1894 memoir of his life as a gambler on the Mississippi River, published in New York by the Home Book Co. for a general reader interested in frontier and river life. Its pictures are rotated black-and-white engravings showing card games in crowded saloon cabins, passengers on a steamboat deck, and a paddlewheel steamer on the river, with heavy hatching and plain, expressive figures a designer could use for period scenes of gambling and river travel.
