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Medicine Shows - What's the Difference?
Medicine shows have a few common elements. One is it was always a lengthy show that sort of got people into the mode of being entertained, not sold to. Many an shows also included some elements of what we later came to sort of define as freak shows. Buffalo bill cody, probably the most famous wild west showmen, got the idea from another favorite that we will talk about quite a bit to day: p t barnum.
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