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==Further reading== *{{cite book|last=Adams|first=Katherine H.|title=Women of the American Circus, 1880-1940|year=2012|publisher=McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers|isbn=978-0-7864-7228-4|ref=none}} *Assael, Brenda, "Circus and Victorian Society", 2005, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville {{ISBN|0-8139-2340-9}} *{{cite journal | last = Brooke | first = Bob | title = Step Right Up: Bob Brooke presents the history of the circus in America | journal = History Magazine | date = October–November 2001 | url = http://www.history-magazine.com/circuses.html | ref = none | access-date = 4 September 2010 | archive-date = 4 January 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180104020256/http://www.history-magazine.com/circuses.html | url-status = dead }} * Childress, Micah D. ''Circus Life: Performing and Laboring Under America's Big Top Shows, 1830-1920'' (University of Tennessee Press, 2018), p. 247 [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/730918/summary online review]. *{{cite journal | last = Dfening | first = Fred D. III | title = The American Circus in the 1870s: An Overview from Newspaper Sources | journal = [[Bandwagon (magazine)|Bandwagon]] | volume = 51 | issue = 6 | pages = 4–60 | date = November 2007 | issn = 0005-4968|ref=none}} Provides an overview of "low-yield research" into the history of the American Circus as covered in "ragcontent newspapers [and] magazines [such as] ''White Tops''" *Johnson, William M. 1990. ''[http://www.circusperformers.org The Rose-Tinted Menagerie]''. Iridescent Publishing *Nance, Susan. ''Entertaining Elephants: Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus'' (Johns Hopkins University Press; 2013) 304 pages; elephants as "actors" or creatures of agency in the American circus from 1800 to 1940. * Simon, Linda. ''The Greatest Shows on Earth: A History of the Circus'' (Reaktion Books, distributed by University of Chicago Press; 2014); 296 pages;
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