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Gambler's Wife: The Life of Malinda Jenkins

Book by Jesse Lilienthal, Paula Mitchell Marks; University of Nebraska Press, 1998

Subjects:

Frontier And Pioneer Life--United States, Gamblers' Spouses--United States--Biography, Jenkins, Malinda--1848-

Collections: History, Entire Library

Malinda Jenkins was born in 1848, the daughter of a subsistence farmer in Kentucky. Showing spunk early, she pridefully refused to attend school without the right textbooks and escaped as soon as possible from a large family that had "too much religion" and too little else. With her third husband ...
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Malinda Jenkins was born in 1848, the daughter of a subsistence farmer in Kentucky. Showing spunk early, she pridefully refused to attend school without the right textbooks and escaped as soon as possible from a large family that had "too much religion" and too little else. With her third husband, Jenkins, the professional gambler, she bounced all over the West, from Wichita Falls to Oregon City to Tacoma to a lumber camp in Washington. She operated a beauty parlor in San Francisco and more boarding houses while Jenkins prospected for gold in Alaska, and in 1897 she crossed the Chilkoot Pass and joined him in Dawson, where they ran the Sour Dough Saloon. Later on they owned a racing stable. When writer Jesse Lilienthal met her in 1930, Malinda was a widow in her eighties who spent every afternoon at the racetrack. Here is her lively story, told to Lilienthal and long out of print until now.
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Jokers Wild: Legalized Gambling in the Twenty-First Century

Book by Thomas Barker, Marjie Britz; Praeger, 2000

Subjects:

Gambling--United States

Collections: Entire Library

A history and analysis of gambling in the United States from bingo to state lotteries to Indian gaming and the rise of Las Vegas, this book reveals how we have become a nation of gamblers and what the future holds for the gambling industry. From the colonial era to the present, Americans have ...
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A history and analysis of gambling in the United States from bingo to state lotteries to Indian gaming and the rise of Las Vegas, this book reveals how we have become a nation of gamblers and what the future holds for the gambling industry. From the colonial era to the present, Americans have enjoyed a love-hate relationship with gambling. It is a pastime that has gone from sin to recreational activity, and an industry that has moved from control by organized crime to management by executives with MBAs. While gaming is one of the nation's fastest-growing industries, Barker and Britz predict that this process will slow or stop in the next century as the result of market saturation and unknown social and economic effects which loom over the glitz, glamour, and action.
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Gambling and the Public Interest

Book by Peter Collins; Praeger, 2003

Subjects:

Gambling, Gambling--Law And Legislation

Collections: Entire Library

...people who are problem gamblers; therefore gambling should be made illegal...certain types of professional gamblers are really gambling. The first-rate poker...against the ma- jority of gamblers, for whom gambling is a harmless pastime...
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State Lotteries and Legalized Gambling: Painless Revenue or Painful Mirage

Book by Richard McGowan; Quorum Books, 1994

Subjects:

Gambling--Government Policy--United States, Lotteries--Government Policy--United States

Collections: Entire Library

Lotteries and state-sponsored gambling is big business. This is the first study that evaluates the business strategies of state lotteries on two fronts. First, it examines which of the lottery strategies produces the most consistent source of revenue for the state. Second, it analyzes possible ...
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Lotteries and state-sponsored gambling is big business. This is the first study that evaluates the business strategies of state lotteries on two fronts. First, it examines which of the lottery strategies produces the most consistent source of revenue for the state. Second, it analyzes possible overall gambling strategies that states will need to utilize as they seek to expand gambling revenue. This is must reading for those operating lotteries, state legislators, vendors to state lottery commissions, taxpayers, and scholars in public policy and government.
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Notes from the Underground, and The Gambler

Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Kentish; Oxford University Press, 1991

Subjects:

Fiction

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

One of the most profound and disturbing works of nineteenth-century literature, Notes from the Underground is a probing and speculative work, often regarded as a forerunner to the Existentialist movement. The Gambler explores the compulsive nature of gambling, one of Dostoevsky's own vices and a ...
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One of the most profound and disturbing works of nineteenth-century literature, Notes from the Underground is a probing and speculative work, often regarded as a forerunner to the Existentialist movement. The Gambler explores the compulsive nature of gambling, one of Dostoevsky's own vices and a subject he describes with extraordinary acumen and drama. Both works are new translations, specially commissioned for the World's Classics series.
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Gambling

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...little to discourage betting, and instances of professional gamblers attempting to fix the outcome of sporting events still...also to employ oddsmaking experts. For sporting events, gambling brokers (popularly, bookies) usually establish two sets...
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Pathological Gambling

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING see compulsive gambling . ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright 2007, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Lernout Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.
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Dice , in Games and Gambling

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

DICE , in games and gambling plural of die , small cubes used in games. They are usually...placed against the thrower or, in side bets, in favor of him. In gambling halls all bets are made with the house either for or against. There...
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Compulsive Gambling

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Compulsive gamblers tend to lose...cannot stop gambling even when they...compulsive gamblers may engage in...for continued gambling or to alleviate...Compulsive gambling is a highly...participation in Gamblers Anonymous, a...
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Canfield, Richard Albert

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...CANFIELD, RICHARD ALBERT 1855 1914, American gambler, b. New Bedford, Mass. A well-known gambling operator in Providence, R.I., Canfield went in the 1880s to New York, where his gambling establishment became famous. It was closed...

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