He mentions the game several times in his autobiography. Even the Italian adventurer Casanova was known to be a great fan of faro. It was said that every faro table in Soapy’s Tivoli Club in Denver, Colorado, in 1889 was gaffed (made to cheat). Could that be part of the attraction?Īn outlawed game appealed to a land of outlaws and free spirits like these fellows…
It seems that Westerners had a passion for the card game that was outlawed in France in the 17th-Century.
While researching Wild West gamblers, the game of faro kept coming up.
