@article{1460027,
      recid = {1460027},
      author = {McClung, Robert M. and Kelly, Laura},
      title = {Old Bet and the start of the American circus /},
      publisher = {Morrow Junior Books,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {30 unnumbered pages :},
      year = {1993},
      abstract = {Describes the performing career of the elephant Old Bet,  whose traveling exhibition under the management of  Hackaliah Bailey in the early nineteenth century gave rise  to the tradition of the American circus.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1460027},
}