SOURCE REFERENCES
01. The Evolution of Whist (1895); William Pole; Longmans, Green, and Co.
02. A game of Whist: Tom and Jerry among the swell broad coves (c1870); I. R. & G. Cruikshank
03. The Conjectural Maverick, Maverick Trails
04. Maverick, The Jeweled Gun (1957), Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
05. Maverick, Stampede (1957), Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
whist
Card-taking game played between two teams of two players each.[1]
An evolution of the 16th-century game of ruff. Named for the word "wist" meaning silent, as in wistful.[1]
The Jeweled Gun: In April of 1876,[3] Bart Maverick traveled from Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory, by stage with Daisy Haskell, posing as her husband, John Haskell. Gunslinger Mitchell boarded their stage in Las Vegas and believed he recognized Bart as someone with whom he had played poker some time before in Dodge City. In order to maintain the ruse that he was John Haskell, he feigned unfamiliarity with poker, but admitted to playing a "cracker-jack game of whist."[4]
Stampede: In Bret Maverick's 1877[3] narrative, he described himself as a man who sometimes tried his hand at a game of whist, or even poker.[5]
An 1870s illustration of a civilized game of whist.[2]
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