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* [[Mortales_Video_(1966)|Les Mortales]], Comedy Acrobatics (1966)
 
* [[Claytons_Video_(1964)|The Claytons]], Cowboy Act (1964)
 
* [[Claytons_Video_(1964)|The Claytons]], Cowboy Act (1964)
 
* [[Jovers_Video_(1967)|The Jovers]], Comedy Acrobatics (1967)
 
* [[Jovers_Video_(1967)|The Jovers]], Comedy Acrobatics (1967)
 
* [[Hardy_Family_Video_(1966)|The Hardy Family]], Risley Act (1966)
 
* [[Hardy_Family_Video_(1966)|The Hardy Family]], Risley Act (1966)
 
* [[Salvadori_Video_(1964)|I Salvadori]], Clowns (1964)
 
* [[Salvadori_Video_(1964)|I Salvadori]], Clowns (1964)
* [[Bocky_et_Randel_Video_(1982)|Bocky & Randel]], Clowns (1982)
 
 
  
 
==Featured Oral Histories==
 
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JAMES WASHINGTON MYERS

Myers' Great American Circus & Hippodrome (1876).jpeg
Jim Myers (1823-1892) was an American equestrian and circus entrepreneur who began his career in the United States, went on to perform in Great Britain and subsequently became a very successful circus impresario in Europe—where the Great American Circus he created there toured extensively, and where he even established a resident circus in Paris.

Born James Washington Myers in Providence, Rhode Island in 1823, he was apprenticed at the tender age of nine to the equestrian and showman Aaron Turner (1790-1854). Like many young performers of that period, he adopted his teacher’s name when he debuted in the ring, and was billed for a time as a bareback rider and acrobat under the name of James Turner. By 1845, however, he had reverted to his own identity and, as Jim Myers, presented equestrian scenes in the manner of Andrew Ducrow in his mentor’s circus.

But Myers was an ambitious and enterprising young man, and in 1854, he entered a partnership with Henry P. Madigan (1815-1862), a fellow equestrian who had worked with him for Aaron Turner, and together they created the Myers & Madigan’s Railroad Circus. Myers worked as a clown in their show; he would later marry his partner’s daughter, Rose Madigan (1839-1907), a talented equestrienneA female equestrian, or horse trainer, horse presenter, or acrobat on horseback. in her own right, who was sixteen years his junior.

The Myers & Madigan Railroad Circus, which was one of the earliest circuses traveling by rail, became Howes Menagerie and Myers & Madigan Circus in 1855, when the partners entered an association with Seth B. Howes (1815-1901)—himself a pioneer of the American traveling circus and a former associate of Aaron Turner. This combine was short-lived however, and the following year, Myers went on the road without partners, with his own Jim Myers’ Circus.... (more...)

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