Olympians of the Sawdust Circle

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Olympians of the Sawdust Circle is written by William L. Slout and published by Wildside Press LLC. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0809513102 (ISBN 10) and 9780809513109 (ISBN 13).

The culmination of more than thirty years of research, Olympians of the Sawdust Circle is an attempt to identify every major and minor player in the American circus world of the nineteenth century. This A-Z guide lists: surname, given name, dates of birth and death (if known), type of entertainment (and function) with which the individual was associated, and the companies and dates by whom the person was employed. Every researcher and library interested in American circus history will need this seminal guide. An absolutely astonishing piece of scholarship.