Brass Bands and Snake Oil Stands

by Dennis Goodwin

This book will take the reader on a word trip back through the recreational landscape of early America. Along the way, he or she will encounter such colorful characters as Blatz the "Human Fish," "Dinner Pail McNutt," "Big-eared Zip," "Sparrow" (a vaudeville performer who would catch ripe pumpkins with his face) and a fast-talking medicine showman who would "cure" corns right through a country bumpkin's shoes with a secret ingredient - gasoline From...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1482606143
• ISBN13: 9781482606140
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"