Sawdust and Spangles

William Cameron Coup

Language: English

Genres: Non-fiction Performing Arts

Narrators:Beeswaxcandle

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1. Foreword
2. Boyhood with the Old-time Wagon Show
3. The Perilous Business of Stocking a Menagerie
4. Freaks and Fakes
5. Moving the Big Show
6. The Prairie Fire
7. Booming the Big Show
8. Parades and Band Wagons
9. Anecdotes of Men and Animals
10. Training Animals and Performers
11. Mobs, Cyclones and Adventures
12. Stories of Old-Time Shows and Showmen
13. How the Great New York Aquarium was Made and Lost

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Subtitled "Stories and Secrets of the Circus", this book tells some of the stories of circuses in the era of P.T. Barnum from the perspective of one who ran travelling circuses in America across the second half of the 19th Century. - Summary by Beeswaxcandle

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