Endangered Species

By William Usher
The biography of a kid, born and raised in the carnival business, who relates some funny and interesting stories about a talker and a geek, gaffed-up freaks, croaked games, rip-offs, raids by the police, "Hey Rubes," a three hundred pound gorilla who thought a carnie strip-tease dancer was his mother, a sex-wise orangutan plus much, much more!

A rollicking, real life story of carnival life that moves from the 1920's through the 1960 s.
William "Fats" Usher tells it like it was, from his early years to the present, via a series of bawdy, mischievous, humorous, heartwarming, revealing and sometimes risqué stories of life on the midway!

A reading must for anyone who ever worked-on or visited a carnival midway.

All Stories, Photos re-printed courtesy of Midway Publications, all rights reserved

I would like to thank Pete Koloszy for bring the stories of William T. Usher to my attention