Violet McNeal in her book, Four White Horses and a Brass Band, spoke on the dangers patent medicine pitchmen faced. We’ve already seen how they were often chased from town by citizens concerned for their more naive neighbors. On the other side of that were those who were working with the law to reduce the harm patent medicine “fakirs” could do. In the margins between these two factions was the danger wrought upon men in the medicine show business by their competition. For Nanzetta, the competition wasn’t just other medicine show salesmen, it was the managers of the Vaudeville shows, the minstrel shows, the “operas”, fair and carnival workers, druggists,…