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A writer chronicles life on a large traveling circus, tracing train journeys, arrivals, camp erection, parades, side-shows, menageries, and performances under canvas. The narrative describes performers, handlers, and the specialists who run the enterprise—managers, detectives, bandleaders, and press agents—along with daily routines and night operations. It foregrounds the immense logistics, capital outlay, and financial risks of touring, the hazards of animals and weather, and the practical methods used to load, set up, and move the show. Interwoven are portraits of the community's habits, morals, and hardships both on tour and in winter quarters.

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Title: On the Road With a Circus

Author: William Carter Thompson

Release date: May 13, 2020 [eBook #62113]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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On the Road
With a Circus

W. C. THOMPSON

NEW YORK
NEW AMSTERDAM BOOK COMPANY
1905


Copyright, 1903,
By W. C. Thompson

Copyright, 1905,
By New Amsterdam Book Company

On the Road With a Circus.