After a discussion of the game’s importance to the Wild West, the rules of faro are explained, along with some ways to cheat at faro. This document describes the game of faro in the context of Deadlands. John Neville Maskelyne, Sharps and Flats, 1894 The methods of cheating used in connection with it are so numerous and so ingenious that it becomes really necessary to devote an entire chapter specially to them.
Faro may almost be said to occupy in America the position of a national game.
