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Circus World: What the Circus Once Was
Read more: Circus World: What the Circus Once WasIn the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the traveling circus was the pinnacle of entertainment in the US. The ‘Greatest Show on Earth’ wasn’t simply a tagline, as it is with today’s circus. It once implied the weird, the exotic, the horrifying, the educational, and the entertaining. It travelled to new settlements and older…