List Books » Ringlingville USA: The Stupendous Story of Seven Siblings and Their Stunning Circus Success
Authors: Jerry Apps, Jerold W. Apps, Fred Dahlinger
ISBN-13: 9780870203558, ISBN-10: 087020355X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Date Published: September 2004
Edition: 1
Jerry Apps is the author of more than thirty-five books on Wisconsin and U.S. history. His writing has appeared in such publications as The Journal of American History, Wisconsin Trails, and the Wisconsin Magazine of History, and he is a regular columnist for Wisconsin Guide. He is especially known for his histories of rural and country life. Apps has won numerous awards for his writing from the Wisconsin Library Association, the Council for Wisconsin Writers, the Robert F. Gard Foundation, the Upper Midwest Booksellers Association, and the Wisconsin Historical Society. In 2001 he received the Barnes and Noble Pride of Wisconsin Award for Excellence in the Field of Regional Literature. He divides his time between his home in Madison and his farm, Roshara, near Wild Rose, Wisconsin.
Ringlingville USA is the story of seven brothers who started with next to nothing and became the most famous circus family ever known. This is an extensively illustrated history with many never before published photos. This first history of the Ringling Circus in over fifty years recounts the hard work, business savvy, and entrepreneurship of the Ringling Brothers as they created the largest, most famous circus in the world. Author Jerry Apps presents a comprehensive history of the family business while at the same time recreating the sights and sounds of the circus at the turn of the century.
Distributed for the Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Foreword | ||
1 | The idea for a circus : 1848-1881 | 1 |
2 | Hall shows and an overland circus : 1882-1884 | 11 |
3 | Establishing a reputation : 1885-1889 | 25 |
4 | Taking to the rails and growing : 1890-1894 | 44 |
5 | A giant emerges : 1895-1899 | 67 |
6 | Facing a new century : 1900-1901 | 88 |
7 | Making money and pleasing people : 1902-1903 | 101 |
8 | Keeping the lead : 1904-1905 | 114 |
9 | Becoming even larger : 1906-1907 | 126 |
10 | Managing two big shows : 1908-1909 | 146 |
11 | Doing the impossible : 1910-1911 | 161 |
12 | Tax woes : 1912-1914 | 173 |
13 | The effects of war : 1915-1918 | 190 |
Epilogue : after Ringlingville | 207 | |
App. I | 1903 Ringling Brothers' official program | 217 |
App. II | The Ringling family | 221 |
App. III | Ringling homes in Baraboo and vicinity | 225 |