The Bloomington-Normal Circus Legacy: The Golden Age of Aerialists

The Bloomington-Normal Circus Legacy: The Golden Age of Aerialists

Maureen Brunsdale, Mark Schmitt

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FörlagThe History Press
ISBN9781625840073

Starting in the 1870s, the barns, icehouses, gymnasiums and empty theaters of central Illinois provided the practice sites for aerial performers whose names still command reverence in the annals of American circus history. Meet Fred Miltimore and the Green Brothers, runaways from the Fourth Ward Sch