“The elephants I grew to know and love at the circus were beaten daily with sharp bull hooks and chained like prisoners for hours on end.” —Tom Rider, former Ringling Bros. employee After nearly nine ...

They keep the circuses separate, and the Wisconsin Historical Society wrote that by the 1910s the Ringling Bros. Circus had more than 1,000 employees, 335 horses, 26 elephants, 16 camels and other ...

An elephant stretches its trunk through ... the one immortalised as “The Greatest Show on Earth”: the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, which is hanging its hat for the last time ...

The Riverfront Park Pavilion Circus.” This wasn’t a circus in the Ringling Bros. sense – it was a circular collection of ...

After Ringling Bros. ended its 145-year-long tradition of forcing elephants to perform in 2016, many assumed that the ...

Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey has ... into Birmingham in 2017 on its classic mile-long circus train that traditionally housed elephants, performers, crew members and their families.

To them, it might have seemed effortless. But these highly trained performers for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus told the children watching on Wednesday such feats of aerial grace ...

The Ringling Bros. traveling circus is performing for the last time ... For me, lions and tigers and elephants walking around me was just natural. (We traveled) from town to town.

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — What better way to kick off a weekend than with a trip to the circus? On a Friday edition of FOX45 Morning News' Hometown Hotspot, meteorologist Justin Chambers took the ...

The re-imagined Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus features three “show guides ... 1607-1677). The Tame Elephant. 1629. Baltimore Museum of Art, Garrett Collection, BMA 1946.112. ...