Crows & cards
Subtitle: a novel
By: written with diligence by Joseph Helgerson ; to which are added fine illustrations by Peter Deséve.
Contributors: Deséve, Peter.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780618883950
Subjects: Apprentices -- Fiction; Gambling -- Fiction; Slavery -- Fiction; Shamans -- Fiction; Indians of North America -- Missouri -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction; Humorous stories; St. Louis (Mo.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Other titles: Crows and cards
Description: In 1849, Zeb's parents ship him off to St. Louis to become an apprentice tanner, but the naive twelve-year-old rebels, casting his lot with a cheating riverboat gambler, while a slave and an Indian medicine man try to get Zeb back on the right path. Includes historical notes, glossary, and bibliographical references.
Notes: Also included is Dictionariium Americannicum; being the words herein most arcane and alien and their definitions.