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• Author(s): William L. Slout • Publisher: Borgo Press • Publisher Imprint: Borgo Press • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing ArtsThe culmination of more than thirty years of research, Olympians of the Sawdust Circle is an attempt to identify e...

• Author(s): William L. Slout • Publisher: Borgo Press • Publisher Imprint: Borgo Press • BISAC: CircusWilliam L. Slout, circus historian par excellence, here provides six essays on the development of the American circus. "From Rags to Ricketts: ...

• Author(s): William L. Slout • Publisher: Borgo Press • Publisher Imprint: Borgo Press • BISAC: CircusWilliam L. Slout, entertainment historian par excellence, here provides five fascinating essays on the development of the American traveling ci...

• Author(s): William L. Slout • Publisher: Borgo Press • Publisher Imprint: Borgo Press • BISAC: CircusThis is the story of the survival of American circuses throughout one of the most perilous periods in our nation's history: 1860-1865. This was...

• Author(s): William L. Slout • Publisher: Borgo Press • Publisher Imprint: Borgo Press • BISAC: CircusJames A. Bailey and P. T. Barnum first joined forces to produce a double show in 1881--a royal coupling--inaugurating the "Golden Age" of the A...

• Author(s): William L. Slout • Publisher: Borgo Press • Publisher Imprint: Borgo Press • BISAC: Circus"Chilly Billy" was the nickname of circus mogul William Washington Cole, the chief rival of P. T. Barnum. Cole was born into a circus family in...

• Author(s): William L. Slout • Publisher: Borgo Press • Publisher Imprint: Borgo Press • BISAC: GeneralWell-known theatre and circus historian William L. Slout here collects together 29 first-hand accounts of 19th- and early 20th-century popular...