Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker, published in 2009 by James McManus, is a widely cited popular history of poker that traces and weighs the competing claims about the game ancestry, including the disputed Persian As Nas theory, and its development into its modern American form in the nineteenth century.
Facts
AuthorJames McManus
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Year2009
Source Typepopular-history
Reliability Tier2
Sources
Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker
James McManus, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009
Claims Backed By This Source (28 claims)
This source backs 28 claims across the atlas. As facts: 21 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Athletes, 8 claims: 5 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Competitions, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Games, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
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