Index of Terms


advertising

Acuff, Roy

Adams, Samuel Hopkins

Aiken, George

Albee, E.F. 

alcohol

The Alhambra

Allen, Gracie

American Medical Association

American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Arizona Bill

Astley, Philip

Astor Place Riot

Ayer, James


Bailey, Hachaliah

Bailey, James

ballyhoo

Banjo Gay

Banyan

Barnum, Phineas Taylor

Bartok, Milton

Beck, Martin

Bergh, Henry

Berry, J.L.

Big Free Fun Show

The Big Sensation Medicine Show

Bigelow, Charles

Billboard

Black, Ray

blood testers

blow-off

Bogardus, Captain Adam H.

the boozer

Boschee’s Syrup

Bowman, Earl

The British Blondes

Brother John

Brother Jonathan

Brower, Frank

Bump, Lavinia

Burdock Blood Bitters

Burt, William

Burt, William P.

buskers


Cajun

callithumpians

calomel

Calvinists

carnival

carnival workers (carnies)

Case, John

case taker, case taking room

Castello, Dan

catarrh

charlatan

Cherry Pectoral

Christian church

Christy, Edwin P.

circus

Civil War

Clarke, C.W.

clem

Clough, Jack

Cody, William F. “Buffalo Bill”

colonies, American

commedia dell’arte

confidence games

consultation room

contests

Cooper, Will

corn slum

Coryat, Thomas

Coup, William Cameron

cowboys

Crockett, Davy


deafness, cure for

dentistry

Diamond King

Diamond Kit

diamonds

disease

doctors

Dog-Face Boy

drugs

The Drunkard

duPre, Dr. Andrew


Edwards, Colonel T.A.

electric belts

Emmett, Dan

Enlightenment

epidemics


Federal Trade Commission yellow fever

Ferdon, Jim

Ferrell, Jim

Fink, Mike

fixing

Fletcher, Charles

Food and Drug Administration

Franklin, Benjamin


Gale, Henry

General Tom Thumb

Godfrey’s Cordials

Great Depression

gold


Hadacol

Hal the Healer

Hamlin, John

Hamlin’s Wizard Oil

Hammer, Arthur

Hanna, Mark

Healy, John

Hembold, Henry

Hickok, Wild Bill

High John the Conqueror

high pitch

hoodoo

Hostetter’s Bitters

Houdini, Harry

house cars

humbug


Italy


jam auctions

Jim Crow

Jolson, Al

Jonson, Ben

Julian, J.C.

Jumbo


Ka-Ton-Ka

Keith, B.F.

Kelley, Thomas P.

Kickapoo shows and remedies

King George III

King James I

Kinsman, F.G.


Lang, Jonnie

LeBlanc, Dudley J.

Leclair, Lefty

legislation

Lexington, Frank

Lighthall, J.I.

Lillie, Gordon

Little Bright Eyes

liver pads

Lord of Misrule

low pitch


McCulla, Jock

McDonald, Doc

McKay, Donald

McNeal, Violet

McNutt, George Washington Morrison

Madame duBois

Maloney, Jonathan

Mann, Cliff

Mardi Gras

Martin, Al

Marx, Groucho

Marx, Harpo

medicine, colonial

The Melodeon

melodrama

Merchant’s Gargling Oil

Middle Ages

Miller, Art (Doc)

mind-reading

mineral salts

minstrels

mojo

moral lectures

Mose the B’howery Boy

mountebank

movies

Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup

muscle reading

museums


narcotics

The Nation

Native Americans

Naylor, William D.

Noell, Anna Mae

Noell, Bobby

nostrum, defined


Oakley, Annie

Old Bet

Oliver, Nevada Ned

opium

The Oregon Medicine Company


The Palace

Pantages, Alexander

Parker, Painless

Pasteur, Madame V.

Pastor, Tony

Peale, Charles Wilson

Pechy, John

Pete in the Well

Pelham, Dick

Peruna

Phenomenal Kraus

pie-in-the-face

Pinkham, Lydia

Pitchmen

Porter, Doc

Pratt, William W.

Prince Nanzetta

Proctor, F.F.

Proprietary Association


quackbills

quacks, English

The Quaker Medicine Company


religion

Renaissance

Rexall’s Americanitis Elixir

Rice, Thomas “Daddy”

Ricketts, John Bill

Riley, James Whitcomb

Robinson, John

Roe, Michael

Roman Empire

Royal Players

Ruckner, Doc

Rush, Benjamin


Sagwa

Scott, “Doc” Tommy

Shakers

The Shamrock Concert Company

shills

Silk Hat Harry

single pitch rule

Sitting Bull

skid row

Smith, Bessie

Smith, William

soap

Soule, Asa T.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Stratton, Charles

Stratton, Owen Tully

street workers

Swor, Bert


tall tales

tapeworm cures

teeth

Temperance movement

Ten Nights in a Barroom

tents, use of

Texas Charlie

theater riots

Thompson, Lydia

Thomson, Samuel

Thomsonians

The Three O’Clock Train

Tiger Fat

tobies

Tom show

Ton-Ko-Ko

Townsend, Doc C.M.

trade cards

trailers

tripes and keister

Turner, Lou


Uncle Tom’s Cabin


variety

vaudeville

Vauxhall Garden

Venice

Vital Sparks


Wallace, Bigfoot

Webber, Malcolm

Wellington, Doc

White, Charlie

Whitlock, Billy

Wild West show

Williams, Hank


Yankee peddler