Four White Horses and a Brass Band

Released on by Violet McNeal
preview-18

  • Four White Horses and a Brass Band Book Detail

  • Author : Violet McNeal
  • Release Date : 2019-11-05
  • Publisher : Feral House
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 199
  • ISBN 13 : 1627310932
  • File Size : 39,39 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Four White Horses and a Brass Band by Violet McNeal PDF Summary

Book Description: Violet McNeal ran away from her family’s rural Minnesota farm in the late 1880s and fell under the spell of conman and patent medicine “doctor” Will Archimbauld who hooked her on opium and promises of fame and fortune. Violet soon learned to become Princess Lotus Blossom and was the best pitchman, nostrum seller, and conwoman to roam the west in a torch-lit wagon. Four White Horses and a Brass Band is Violet’s story of life on the road with the medicine show and reveal the secrets of conman’s trade. Sick and nearly dead with addiction by age 30, she submits to the tortures of withdrawal and the “cure” to create a new life. First published in 1947, the Feral House edition features an extensive afterword on the history of the patent medicine trade and evolution of the lure of miracle cures and healers. Also included are a glossary of the grifter’s cant and samples of scripts used by Violet and other infamous “doctors”.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Four White Horses and a Brass Band books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Four White Horses and a Brass Band

Four White Horses and a Brass Band

File Size : 95,95 MB
Total View : 5842 Views
DOWNLOAD

Violet McNeal ran away from her family’s rural Minnesota farm in the late 1880s and fell under the spell of conman and patent medicine “doctor” Will Archi

Slippery Characters

Slippery Characters

File Size : 83,83 MB
Total View : 1666 Views
DOWNLOAD

In the 1920s, black janitor Sylvester Long reinvented himself as Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, and Elizabeth Stern, the native-born daughter of a German Luthe

Step right up

Step right up

File Size : 35,35 MB
Total View : 3525 Views
DOWNLOAD

Here is the fascinating though ofttimes shady history of the medicine show, an American show-business institution that dispensed hoopla and nostrums to a credul

The Strongest Men on Earth

The Strongest Men on Earth

File Size : 10,10 MB
Total View : 1491 Views
DOWNLOAD

They claimed to be the mightiest men in the world. For twenty-five years, before the outbreak of the First World War, professional strongmen were the pop idols