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There were lots of other western movie
heroes that did circuses. Some examples below.



(Courtesy of Fred D. Pfening, Jr.)



(Courtesy of Fred D. Pfening, Jr.)



(Courtesy of Fred D. Pfening, Jr.)



(Courtesy of Fred D. Pfening, Jr.)



The William P. Hall farm in Lancaster, Missouri, became a "boneyard" of old circus wagons and railroad cars. Newspapers at the Library of Congress have more on the boneyard including a large photo of railroad sleeping cars from the short-lived "Buck Jones Wild West Shows and Round Up Days" which opened and went broke in 1929:
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1932-08-28/ed-1/seq-73/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1932-08-28/ed-1/seq-77/

The Circus Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin has some historic wagons that were used by the cowboy heroes including Buck Jones, Ken Maynard and Tom Mix: https://www.circusworldbaraboo.org

Info on the Miller Bros. 101 Ranch Show can be found at:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210731160105/http://www.kaycounty.info/101_ranch/101_frame.htm
http://www.travelhistory.org/people+places/ChristmasAt101Ranch/ChristmasAt101Ranch-01.html
http://sites.rootsweb.com/~nalakota/wotw/misc/101ranch_wotw1137.htm

The Library of Congress has lots of Info on the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show: https://www.loc.gov/search?new=true&q=Buffalo+Bill+Wild+West+Show

William (Buckles) Woodcock has a blog on circus history, and included are pages (with images) on Ken Maynard's 1936 Wild West Show:
http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2005/10/ken-maynard-1.html
http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2005/10/ken-maynard-wild-west-1936-4.html
http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2005/10/ken-maynard-wild-west-1936-3.html
http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2005/10/ken-maynard-wild-west-1936-1_19.html
http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2005/10/ken-maynard-wild-west-1936-1.html

The San Diego History website mentions the Ken Maynard Wild West show being booked for the California Pacific Exposition, San Diego, 1935-1936: https://sandiegohistory.org/archives/amero/1935expo/ch5/

The Circus Historical Society website has a Bandwagon magazine article by Stuart Thayer on the last years of the Tom Mix Circus, seasons 1936-1938. Article is no longer available at the Circus Historical Society website, but it is online at the "Wayback Machine" at the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20150317170214/http://www.circushistory.org/Bandwagon/bw-1971May.htm

The Circus Historical Society website has many detailed articles (which were published in their Bandwagon magazine) on the history of the Cole Bros. Circus. Ken Maynard's own Diamond K Wild West Show was short-lived, and in the mid 1930s, he signed on with the Cole Bros. Circus (who also had animal trainer Clyde Beatty). These articles are lengthy and I suggest you use the Search box in your web browser to find references to Maynard. Articles are no longer available at the Circus Historical Society website, but are online at the "Wayback Machine" at the Internet Archive:

"A History of the Cole Bros. Circus 1935-40" (By Joseph T. Bradbury. Bandwagon, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Mar-Apr), 1966, pp. 12-21):
https://web.archive.org/web/20150415090619/http://www.classic.circushistory.org/Bandwagon/bw-1966Mar.htm
"A History of the Cole Bros. Circus 1935-40, Part III [sic VIII], the 1937 Season Continued" (By Joseph T. Bradbury. Bandwagon, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Jul-Aug), 1966, pp. 11-17.):
https://web.archive.org/web/20150415090619/http://www.classic.circushistory.org/Bandwagon/bw-1966Jul.htm
"History of the Cole Bros., Part V, The 1936 Season" (Joseph T. Bradbury. Bandwagon, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Jan-Feb), 1966, pp. 15-25):
https://web.archive.org/web/20150415090619/http://www.classic.circushistory.org/Bandwagon/bw-1966Jan.htm
"Cole Bros. Circus, The 1937 Season, Part VII, First Half" (By Joseph T. Bradbury. Bandwagon, Vol. 10, No. 3 (May-Jun), 1966, pp. 20-27):
https://web.archive.org/web/20150415090619/http://www.classic.circushistory.org/Bandwagon/bw-1966May.htm
"A History of the Cole Bros. Circus 1935-40, Part IX - The 1938 Season, Cole Bros." (By Joseph T. Bradbury. Bandwagon, Vol. 10, No. 5 (Sep-Oct), 1966, pp. 14-20):
https://web.archive.org/web/20150415090619/http://www.classic.circushistory.org/Bandwagon/bw-1966Sep.htm
"A History of the Cole Bros. Circus 1935-40, Part XI - the 1938 Season" (By Joseph T. Bradbury. Bandwagon, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Mar-Apr), 1967, pp. 14-25):
https://web.archive.org/web/20150415090619/http://www.classic.circushistory.org/Bandwagon/bw-1967Mar.htm
"A History of the Cole Bros. Circus 1935-40, Part XIII, The 1940 Season" (By Joseph T. Bradbury. Bandwagon, Vol. 11, No. 5 (Sep-Oct), 1967, pp. 16-30):
https://web.archive.org/web/20150415090619/http://www.classic.circushistory.org/Bandwagon/bw-1967Sep.htm

The Circuses and Sideshows website has a small amount of info on western movie performers doing circuses: http://www.circusesandsideshows.com/index.html



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