Editing Circus (section)

==Further reading==
*{{cite book|last=Adams|first=Katherine H.|title=Women of the American Circus, 1880-1940|year=2012|publisher=McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers|isbn=978-0-7864-7228-4|ref=none}}
*Assael, Brenda, "Circus and Victorian Society", 2005, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville {{ISBN|0-8139-2340-9}}
*{{cite journal
  | last = Brooke
  | first = Bob
  | title = Step Right Up: Bob Brooke presents the history of the circus in America
  | journal = History Magazine
  | date = October–November 2001
  | url = http://www.history-magazine.com/circuses.html
  | ref = none
  | access-date = 4 September 2010
  | archive-date = 4 January 2018
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180104020256/http://www.history-magazine.com/circuses.html
  | url-status = dead
  }}
* Childress, Micah D. ''Circus Life: Performing and Laboring Under America's Big Top Shows, 1830-1920'' (University of Tennessee Press, 2018), p.&nbsp;247 [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/730918/summary online review].
*{{cite journal
  | last = Dfening
  | first = Fred D. III
  | title = The American Circus in the 1870s: An Overview from Newspaper Sources
  | journal = [[Bandwagon (magazine)|Bandwagon]]
  | volume = 51
  | issue = 6
  | pages = 4–60
  | date = November 2007
  | issn = 0005-4968|ref=none}} Provides an overview of "low-yield research" into the history of the American Circus as covered in "ragcontent newspapers [and] magazines [such as] ''White Tops''"
*Johnson, William M. 1990. ''[http://www.circusperformers.org The Rose-Tinted Menagerie]''. Iridescent Publishing
*Nance, Susan. ''Entertaining Elephants: Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus'' (Johns Hopkins University Press; 2013) 304 pages; elephants as "actors" or creatures of agency in the American circus from 1800 to 1940.
* Simon, Linda. ''The Greatest Shows on Earth: A History of the Circus'' (Reaktion Books, distributed by University of Chicago Press; 2014); 296 pages;