Editing Circus (section)

====Expansion of the American format====
[[File:The Barnum Bailey Greatest Show on Earth circus poster NYPL.jpg|thumb|P.T. Barnum and James Anthony Bailey]]
In the Americas during the first two decades of the 19th century, the [[Circus of Pepin and Breschard]] toured from Montreal to Havana, building circus theatres in many of the cities it visited. [[Victor Pépin]], a native New Yorker,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.circusinamerica.org/public/timelines?date1=1801&date2=1824 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070325081303/http://www.circusinamerica.org/public/timelines?date1=1801&date2=1824  |archive-date=25 March 2007 |title=Circus in America TimeLine: 1801 – 1824 |publisher=The Circus in America, 1793 – 1940 |url-status=usurped |access-date=20 April 2012 }}</ref> was the first American to operate a major circus in the United States.<ref name="circusinamerica">{{cite web|url=http://www.circusinamerica.org/public/welcome|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060501081904/http://www.circusinamerica.org/public/welcome|archive-date=1 May 2006|title=Introduction|publisher=The Circus in America, 1793 – 1940|url-status=usurped|access-date=20 April 2012}}</ref> Later the establishments of Purdy, Welch & Co., and of van Amburgh gave a wider popularity to the circus in the United States.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=391}} In 1825, [[Joshuah Purdy Brown]] was the first circus owner to use a large canvas tent for the circus performance. Circus pioneer [[Dan Rice]] was the most famous pre-[[American Civil War|Civil War]] circus clown,<ref name=carlyon>David Carlyon. ''Dan Rice: The Most Famous Man You've Never Heard Of''</ref> popularising such expressions as "The One-Horse Show" and "[[Hey, Rube!]]". The American circus was revolutionised by [[P. T. Barnum]] and [[William Cameron Coup]], who launched the travelling [[Barnum and Bailey Circus|P. T. Barnum's Museum, Menagerie & Circus]], the first [[freak show]], in the 1870s. Coup also introduced the first multiple-ring circuses, and was also the first circus entrepreneur to use [[circus train]]s to transport the circus between towns. By the 1830s, [[sideshow]]s were also being established alongside travelling circuses.<ref name="nickell"/>{{rp|9}}
[[File:The grand lay-out, 1874.jpg|thumb|Circus parade around tents, in lithograph by Gibson & Co., 1874]]