Books

Herbert Asbury, Sucker's Progress: An Informal History of Gambling in America from the Colonies to Canfield. Montclair, NJ: Patterson Smith, 1969. Very readable, with good material on lotteries and numbers running.

Robert K. DeArment, Knights of the Green Cloth: The Saga of the Frontier Gamblers. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982. Difficult reading, but fascinating background material about the riverboat gambling industry.

Ovid Demaris, The Boardwalk Jungle. New York: Bantam, 1986. Good information on the coming of gambling to Atlantic City.

Editors of Time-Life Books, The Gamblers. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life, 1978. Fascinating old photographs, excellent bibliography.

Rod L. Evans and Mark Hance, eds., Legalized Gambling: For and Against. Chicago: Open Court, 1998. An anthology with a very well written and informative overview; good index.

Ann Fabian, Card Sharps, Dream Books & Bucket Shops: Gambling in 19th-Century America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990. Describes the social aspects of gambling in the United...