Clint Adams is playing poker on behalf of a banker for a $600,000 pot-only to discover that his biggest competitors aren't playing by the rules.

THE $600,000 GAMBLE Clint Adams has been hired to play poker against five of the world's wealthiest competitors on behalf of Virginia City banker Arliss Morgan—for a pot that's more than half a million dollars. There's an even greater risk involved when word of the game leaks out, making the money an easy target for every outlaw gang in the territory. But the real threat comes from within Morgan's own camp. His wife has a scheme that will give her the winning hand—unless she tries to bluff the Gunsmith...

This is a history of gunsmithing in America. Although the English guild system regulated the trade in the Mother Country, Americans, as usual, preferred freedom to regulation. This book examines the gunsmithing trade in relation to the militia; apprenticeships; labour; tools and equipment; the Frontier gunsmith; and traitors, criminals, and deserters.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

First published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the past, treated as inferior to British literature, there has always been a large popular audience for the genre, which this book shows. The figures with entries in this encyclopedia not only amuse in their writing, but also aim to enlighten- setting out to expose the foibles and foolishness of society and the individuals who compose it. It is the manner in which these authors try to accomplish this end that determines whether they appear in the volume. Indeed, the book will demonstrate that the best humor has at its base, a ready understanding of human nature.