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Step right up

Title
Step right up / Brooks McNamara.
Author
McNamara, Brooks
Publication
Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday & Company, 1976.

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Description
xviii, 233 pages : illustrations; 27 cm
Summary
A history of the medicine show in the United States.
Subject
  • Medicine shows > History
  • Nostrums > history
  • Medicine shows
  • United States
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [215]-221.
Contents
1. Step Right Up -- 2. Pitchmen, High and Low -- 3. The Medicine Show -- 4. Wizard Oil -- 5. The Kickapoo Idea -- 6. The Kickapoo Shows -- 7. Indian Shows and Showmen -- 8. Oregon -- 9. Up in all the Acts and Bits -- 10. For a Better Tomorrow.
ISBN
  • 0385029594
  • 9780385029599
LCCN
73020522
OCLC
  • ocm00979002
  • 979002
  • SCSB-225943
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library