Our good friend, Steve Flint, helped me understand this wagon better about a year ago when he explained that the other side of the wagon has a large walking male lion carving on it. I thought it was two different wagons.
Joseph Bradbury thought it was originally built for the Barnum & Bailey show but it was on the Downie and Wheeler Circus by 1911.
Downie-Wheeler bought a number of wagons from Baraboo about 1912; this one was said to have been on Sells Bros, then Forepaugh-Sells, then Downie-Wheeler, LaTena, Downie's Main, and the Ranxh show. I think.
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Our good friend, Steve Flint, helped me understand this wagon better about a year ago when he explained that the other side of the wagon has a large walking male lion carving on it. I thought it was two different wagons.
Joseph Bradbury thought it was originally built for the Barnum & Bailey show but it was on the Downie and Wheeler Circus by 1911.
Bob
Downie-Wheeler bought a number of wagons from Baraboo about 1912; this one was said to have been on Sells Bros, then Forepaugh-Sells, then Downie-Wheeler, LaTena, Downie's Main, and the Ranxh show. I think.
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