Title: American sideshow : an encyclopedia of history's most wondrous and curiously strange performers /
Authors: Hartzman, Marc
Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Circus performers United States Dictionaries.; Sideshows United States Dictionaries.; Circus United States Dictionaries.
Abstract: Presents a collection of alphabetically arranged entries that profile a range of America's strangest human curiosities, from Tom Thumb and Chang and Eng, to Myrtle Corbin, the four-legged woman, and Prince Randian, the human torso.
Contents: Opening Bally -- The Golden Age -- The Silver Age -- The Modern Age -- Egress -- From Under the Tent to Across the Web.