Links

• The Gentleman's Page The content on this page was where I went to when I was first starting to get interested in Faro. It does a good job of giving a general overview.Faro: Favorite Gambling Game of the Frontier Lots of anecdotal stories about Faro and the people who played it.

• Pharo Bank also equips the discerning sharp by providing faro items, but with a 'ph' .

• Parnell Playing Cards - When I want to get fancy, I use the Parnell card deck. Just like the cards at the time; thick like they used to be and clearly a cut above the average reenactor type period playing card.

• Donald Meyer - Found his link where he wrote a dissertation about Faro, learned some new things from it, take a look!

• Another dissertation, by Arthur Pitt, looking at gambling in the London, UK scene turn of the 19th century, faro is mentioned quite a bit.

Pico Pistolero - I met Pico (featured to the left in the left image) at Calico Ghost Town in 2013. Nice guy. Gave him a link on my new website.

• An article ' “Bucking the Tiger”History and Rulesof the Traditional Game of Faro' written by Mark Howard. I wonder where he has gone off to? Anyone know?

• Home Run Games sells some unique historical restoration card decks from the mid-19th century to the beginning to the 20th century, among other card deck offerings.

• The American Hoyle, Or Gentleman's Hand-book of Games... printed in 1864 was referenced by John Morris of Wanderings of a Vagabond (Who I write about here)  as being an accurate description of the game as he knew it.