Brewery Act #1

This the Floto Show in 1930 on a muddy lot, that's my dad at right but this story is about the cowboy in the picture, Johnny Agee. The feature of the show that season was the Western Movie Star Tom Mix who presented a horse act trained by Agee whereby the horses performed in and around large barrells (thus called a Brewery Act). Mr. Agee's career started when as a young man with Ringling Bros. Circus, Al Ringling who served as the show's Equestrian Director, took Agee under his wing and taught him the intricacies of running the show's preformance as well as giving him access to the world class horse trainers the show employed. After Mr. Ringling's death, Agee assumed the post of Equestrian Director, a position he held until the Ringling-Barnum merger in 1919.