Thursday, February 10, 2011

4Paw-Sells Elephants #8

Bill Woodcock:

"4-Paw Dancing 8"
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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

If this is the Forepaugh Dancing 8 on Forepaugh-Sells, it's obviously 1896 or later, and before 1908.

Ole Whitey said...

Buckles: I've never seen a complete list of the eight.

Of course there may have been some changes year to year.

Can you help out here? Thanks

Buckles said...

Dave.
In a letter to Dick Conover dated 4/2/63 my dad wrote:
"Believe I absorbed the names of the 8 Forepaugh Quadrille elephants as John, Babe, Queen, Romey, Columbia, Betts, Dutch and Rubber."

Anonymous said...

The names that the Colonel sent to Conover are about the same as in the 1905 Forepaugh-Sells auction catalogue, with minor spelling differences: Betz; and Roomey. The group went to Baraboo when the Forepaugh-Sells show was split at the end of the 1907 tour and ended up leased out to the Gollmars, I believe, for a season, maybe two, then probably went out with Al Ringling's 1910-1911 reprise. A bull named Rubber was offered for sale thereafter.