Mighty Mary

Mary was a circus elephant. The Star of the West. She could dance, play the trumpet and pleased crowds wherever she went. 

In 1916, after a disastrous Wild West show in Erwin Tennessee, acts against Mary the five-ton Indian elephant would go down in history as one of the most disturbing bizarre cases of animal cruelty the world has ever seen. 

But, Mary had a life before the circus. She was free onc...