Still Further Antedating of "Black Jack" (Card Game)

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Here are some black-jack playing Klondike miners in 1899.

Year: 1899
Title: Twelve Months in Klondike
Author: Robert C. Kirk
Publisher: William Heinemann, London
Page: 94
http://books.google.com/books?id=1o0rAQAAMAAJ&q=%22is+a+game%22#v=snippet&

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Craps is a game played with dice, and has more
chances against the player and in favour of the game-
keeper. Black-jack is a game played with cards, and
is known sometimes as “twenty-one.” Poker is too
generally known to need description.
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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> 1903 _Evening Statesman_ (Walla Wash, Wash.) 24 Oct. 2 (Chronicling America)  This morning District Attorney Hailey will file criminal information against about 25 others, as follows, says the Pendleton Tribune ... James Spence, on two accounts, for conducting poker games and vingt-un, or what is commonly known as black jack or twenty-one.
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