TY  - GEN
T1  - Secrets of the sideshows
T2  - Book collections on Project MUSE.
A1  - Nickell, Joe
LA  - English
PP  - Lexington, Ky.
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
YR  - 2005
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm65377460
AB  - On small-town ballfields and county fairgrounds, the sideshow performers set up their tents and trailers in the shadow of the Ferris wheel. There they amazed us with daring feats such as fire eating and sword swallowing, intrigued us with exhibitions of human oddities and various "anatomical wonders," and yes, deceived us with illusions such as "Atasha the Gorilla Girl" and even outright fakes. These bizarre spectacles engaged the mind as well as the eye. Was the human blockhead act, in which the performer pounded a large nail or ice pick into his nostril, real or fake? Was the so-called allig
OP  - 401
CN  - GV1835 .N53 2005eb
SN  - 0813171792
SN  - 9780813171791
SN  - 9780813137377
SN  - 0813137373
SN  - 0813123585
SN  - 9780813123585
KW  - Sideshows.
KW  - Attractions (Spectacles)
KW  - side shows.
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS : Circus.
KW  - Sideshows
KW  - Schausteller
KW  - dissertations.
KW  - Academic theses
KW  - Academic theses.
KW  - Thèses et écrits académiques.
ER  -