Sunday, December 21, 2008

""Tom Tom" Yankee Robinson Circus 1909


Scan11095, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

TOM TOM

Fred Buchanan's first elephant possiby acquired from the defunct George Jabour Show.
1904-11 Yankee Robinson Circus

(Killed keeper Charles Barlow in 1909)
(Drowned 6-24-11 when he became mired in a lake while being watered at Cumberland, Wisconsin. Soon after the carcass was removed from the lake, the tusks sawed off and the remains dumped in the fire pit of a nearby Mill Yard.)

Posted by Buckles at 12/21/2008 06:08:00 AM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Tom Tom appears to have had unusually straight tusks, as opposed to those on Big Charlie. The former's look like those on that huge bull that lived in Africa in recent times, under guard against poachers. Does tusk curvature have anything to do with geographic origin or sub-species?

People say that Ceylonese elephants, like Forepaugh's Bolivar, don't have tusks.

21 December, 2008 19:05
Wade G. Burck said...

Buckles,
Killed a keeper in 1909. "Drowned 6-24-11 when he became mired in a lake while being watered" Do you suppose "mired" is the same thing as drug to the bottom with an anchor and a boat load of chain? LOL Stranger things have happened.
Wade Burck

21 December, 2008 23:35

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