En Route to the Great Eastern Circus and Other Essays on Circus History

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...