Step right up
By: by Brooks McNamara.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Series: Performance studies; Performance studies (Jackson, Miss.)
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Medicine shows -- United States -- History.
Description: Here is the fascinating though ofttimes shady history of the medicine show, an American show-business institution that dispensed hoopla and nostrums to a credulous clientele. When medicine shows died out, the nation lost one of its most rollicking entertainments.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-236) and index.