Four White Horses and a Brass Band: True Confessions from the World of Medicine Shows, Pitchmen, Chumps, Suckers, Fixers, and Shills - McNeal, Violet
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First published in 1947--a harrowing tale of a teenage opium addict traveling from town to town selling useless tonics while dodging the law and escaping from her Svengali-like "husband." This lost classic now offers an extensive Afterword on the history of the patent medicine trade and evolution of the lure of miracle cures and healers.lers.

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First published in 1947--a harrowing tale of a teenage opium addict traveling from town to town selling useless tonics while dodging the law and escaping from her Svengali-like "husband." This lost classic now offers an extensive Afterword on the history of the patent medicine trade and evolution of the lure of miracle cures and healers.lers.
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Violet McNeal was a teenage runaway who gained fame on the medicine show circuit of the late 1800s through the early 20th Century. She left her abusive partner, quit opium, married and settled in Oregon and later California. She penned her autobiography which was originally released in 1947.