| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.4

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Canada and the United States

James R. Schultz. The Romance of Small-Town Chautauquas. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 185. $29.95.

In 1918, two young Missouri-born brothers named Richard and Eben Schultz embarked upon a summertime adventure that would change their lives. Working as English professors during the school year, the Schultz brothers spent the next twelve summers traveling to small towns across the country with politicians like William Jennings Bryan and Robert La Follette, ventriloquists such as Edgar Bergen, famous cornet players like Bohumir Kryl, and daredevil lady aviators like Lady Mary Heath. The Schultzes moved from town to town as superintendents, coordinating the on-site arrangements for a highly popular form of traveling entertainment known as Chautauqua, which combined lectures, musicals, and theater for people of all ages under a canvas tent. Throughout their tenure as chautauqua superintendents, the Schultz brothers amassed a huge collection of photographs, correspondence, show bills, programs, and business records. Richard Schultz intended to write about his experiences, but death interrupted his plans. James R. Schultz has fulfilled his father's goal by writing a fascinating history of small-town chautauquas from a "personal perspective" replete with over one hundred photographs, colorful interviews, and an impressive range of far-flung archival material.

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