En Route to the Great Eastern Circus and Other Essays on Circus History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781434435477)

William L. Slout, entertainment historian par excellence, here provides five fascinating essays on the development of the American traveling circus in the post-Civil War era: "En Route to the Great Eastern Circus" (on the creation of this great show); "The Great Eastern Circus of 1872" (more details about one of P. T. Barnum's rivals); "The Not-So-Great Trans-Atlantic Circus and Menagerie" (how a show failed suddenly in a yellow fever epidemic); "What Goes Up...Comes Down" (how balloning became part of the circus environment); and "The Chicken or the Egg?" (on the first development of the double-ring act pioneered by Barnum and others). These vivid essays, highlighted by numerous contemporaneous excerpts from local newspapers, help bring a long-forgotten era alive again.

Author: William L. Slout
ISBN-10: 1434435474
ISBN-13: 9781434435477
Publisher: Borgo Press
Language: English
Published: 07/11/2011
Pages: 206
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d