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URL: https://archive.org/details/comprehensiveind0000stev
issued: 2004
ISBN: '0821415840'
BorderWithCrook:
type: book
title: On the border with Crook
URL: https://archive.org/details/ldpd_7039048_000/
issued: 1891
author:
- &John_G_Bourke
given: John G.
family: Bourke
url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gregory_Bourke
publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons
publisher-place: New York
LynchingAtTucson:
type: article-journal
title: A Lynching at Tucson in 1873
page: 233-242
URL: https://archive.org/details/newmexicohistori19univrich/page/233
author: [*John_G_Bourke]
#editor:
#- family: Bloom
# given: Lansing B.
in:
title: New Mexico Historical Review
issued: 1944
volume: 29
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<p class='lead'>
<span lang="es" class="aka noun">Chuza</span> was a gambling game popular in the 19th century in both Mexico and New Mexico, and similar to {%gameref roulette %}.
<span lang="es" class="aka noun">Chuza</span> or <span lang="es" class="aka noun">Chusas</span> (‘owls’) was a gambling game popular in the 19th century in both Mexico and New Mexico,{%fn%}Writing in 1886, John Gregory Bourke described it as a “purely Mexican game”, in opposition to “American” games such as Faro, Keno, and Diana.[@LynchingAtTucson 236]{%endfn%} and similar to {%gameref roulette %}.
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The game was said to be particularly popular with women:[@TheWhiteChief 44][@CommercePrairies_1 240]

> [it is not] confined to any class; but the most respectable New Mexican ladies would be found seated at these tables day and night, until their faces and sunken eyes proclaimed that the excitement was too powerful for their system.[@NewMexicanCustoms]{%fn%}One author in the New Mexico Historical Review misunderstood this passage as referring to a card game.[@NMInTransition 191]{%endfn%}
The game was played with a spinning wheel (see image below) and small coloured balls,[@MagneticWest] but other than that, I know little about how it was played.{%fn%}In 1898, a correspondent of <cite>Notes and Queries</cite> also wrote in for information about the game—as far as I can tell, they weren’t answered.[@ChuzaNotesAndQueries]{%endfn%} Any further information that a reader can provide would be helpful!
The game was played with a spinning wheel (see image below) and small coloured balls,[@MagneticWest] and either cards or numbers marked upon the table were used to track the bets placed upon the segments of the wheel.[@BorderWithCrook 81] Other than that, I know little about how it was played.{%fn%}In 1898, a correspondent of <cite>Notes and Queries</cite> also wrote in for information about the game—as far as I can tell, they weren’t answered.[@ChuzaNotesAndQueries]{%endfn%} Any further information that a reader can provide would be helpful!

{%image src="Chuza-9409.45-resized.jpg" alt="An old wooden shallow cone shaped wheel with a raised rim, and a painted design on the centre."
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