TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nance,Susan
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Entertaining elephants: animal agency and the business of the American circus 
T2  - Animals, history, culture
SN  - 9781421408736
AV  - QL737.P98 N36 2913
U1  - 636.088/8 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - The Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Circus
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Circus animals
KW  - Animal welfare
KW  - Elephants
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-275) and index; Why elephants in the early republic? -- Becoming an elephant "actor" -- Learning to take direction -- Punishing bull elephants -- Herd management in the gilded age -- Going off script -- Animal cultures lost in the circus, then and now
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781421408736/
ER  -