Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit
by
Robert Bogdan
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
From 1840 until 1940, freak shows by the hundreds crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs, giants, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, savages, snake charmers, fire eaters, and other oddities. By today's standards such displays would...