Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones: The American Medicine Show of the Nineteenth Century

by Ann Anderson

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This illustrated study of the medicine show phenomenon surveys 19th century popular entertainment and offers an insight into the ways in which show business, advertising, and medicine manufacture developed in concert.
  • ISBN10 0786408006
  • ISBN13 9780786408009
  • Publish Date 1 July 2000
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 4 October 2008
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint McFarland & Co Inc
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 216
  • Language English