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Publication: Frontier Times, Volume 9-No.11, August, 1932
Story Title: Old Circus Days in Texas
By: J. Marvin Hunter

Dimensions: 17.8cm x 16.7cm (7in x 10.5in)
Pages: 47
Printed: August, 1932; Bandera, Texas

Description:
I've included an excerpt from this story about the wild old circus days in Texas. The story takes place in the summer of 1873, less than a year after the town moved to its present location.

Read the story

For more, read Circus Troubles in Jacksonville, from Cherokee County History, published by the Cherokee County Historical Commission.

Also see an excerpt from the Dallas Herald of April 16, 1870.




Compiled by Greg Smith. If you have any materials you'd like to contribute, please email me.