Annie Clark Cole's sweeping Western adventure follows Vick Porter a young card sharp from the backwood hollers of Arkansas in the mid 1800's to the saloons and card rooms in West Texas, to the bayous and brutal prisons in Louisiana, and finally through the epic changes of the American frontier into the dawn of the 20th Century.Vick''s nemesis, the conniving, insidious con man and gambler Buck Dupree, teaches Vick the detailed techniques of a professional...