Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones: The American Medicine Show

by Ann Anderson (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $23.95

  This study of the medicine show phenomenon surveys 19th century popular entertainment and provides insight into the ways in which show business, advertising, and medicine manufacture developed in concert. The colorful world of the medicine show, with its Wild West shows, pie-eating contests, clowns, and menageries, is fully explored.