Four White Horses And A Brass Band
McNeal, Violet
First published in 1947--a harrowing tale of a teenage opium addict traveling from town to town selling useless tonics while dodging the law and escaping from her Svengali-like "husband." This lost classic now offers an extensive Afterword on the history of the patent medicine trade and evolution of the lure of miracle cures and healers.lers.