Sawdust and Spangles: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Sawdust and Spangles, credited to William Cameron Coup, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Sawdust and Spangles by William Cameron Coup. Read in English by Beeswaxcandle. Subtitled "Stories and Secrets of the Circus", this book tells some of the stories of circuses in the era of P.T. Barnum from the perspective of one who ran traveling circuses in America across the second half of the 19th Century. - Summary by Beeswaxcandle

Recording facts

• Recording title: Sawdust and Spangles
• Author credits: William Cameron Coup
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 13
• Listed recording duration: 5:35:39

Catalogue topics

• circus
• menagerie

Track guide

1. 00 - Foreword — 8:35
2. 01 - Boyhood with the Old-time Wagon Show — 20:24
3. 02 - The Perilous Business of Stocking a Menagerie — 21:01
4. 03 - Freaks and Fakes — 29:25
5. 04 - Moving the Big Show — 32:59
6. 05 - The Prairie Fire — 22:44
7. 06 - Booming the Big Show — 26:04
8. 07 - Parades and Band Wagons — 20:00
9. 08 - Anecdotes of Men and Animals — 37:42
10. 09 - Training Animals and Performers — 28:51
11. 10 - Mobs, Cyclones and Adventures — 27:18
12. 11 - Stories of Old-Time Shows and Showmen — 41:24
13. 12 - How the Great New York Aquarium was Made and Lost — 19:12

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