Routing the Circus
With the expansion of railroads, the circus exploded.
Before railroads, tent shows traversed what land they could in their wagons. With the advent of the railroad era, circuses began to cover the entire country.Map data reflects current names. In some cases, the map creators were required to make estimations about the location of a route stop. For more information on contemporaneous location names, including Native American territories, please see the route books, which are hyperlinked within the map's location pop-ups.