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Expand Up @@ -19987,11 +19987,26 @@ LynchingAtTucson:
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.
author:
- family: Bloom
given: Lansing B.
- *John_G_Bourke
in:
title: New Mexico Historical Review
issued: 1944
volume: 29
NewMexicoMexican:
type: article-magazine
title: "New Mexico Under Mexican Administration: Part III"
page: 235-287
URL: https://archive.org/details/oldsantafemagazi01unse_1/page/n507/
author:
- given: Lansing B.
family: Bloom
in:
title: Old Santa Fe
volume: 1
issue: 3
issued:
month: 1
year: 1914
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> [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] 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!
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] In New Mexico in 1824, a tax of 4 pesos was levied upon the game.[@NewMexicoMexican 239]

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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