Sportsmen and gamesmen
By: John Dizikes.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Columbia, Mo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Sports -- United States -- Biography.; Sports -- United States -- History.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-339) and index.
Originally published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART I; title: City and Country; title: 1. The Sportsman and the Hermitage; title: 2. The General and the Colonel; title: 3. William T. Porter and the Spirit of the Times; title: 4. Henry William Herbert and Frank Forester; title: PART II; title: The Challenge to England; title: 5. John Cox Stevens and America; title: 6. Richard Ten Broeck and the American Invasion; title: 7. Paul Morphy Against the World; title: 8. John C. Heenan and Adah Menken; title: PART III; title: Looking Back and Looking Forward; title: 9. Hiram Woodruff: Wait and Win; title: 10. P. T. Barnum: Games and Hoaxing; title: 11. R. C. Schenck: From Draw Poker to the Twentieth; title: Century.