Bigtops to Billboards - John Loring

\BIGTOPS to BILLBOARDS\ follows the astonishing career of Colonel Burr Robbins beginning with rare, original letters from the Civil War frontlines and then Burr Robbins' promotion at twenty-seven to colonel in the Union Army.The war concluded in 1865, with his love of showmanship, He opened a cabaret theater in the boom and soon bust Pennsylvania oil rush which rapidly collapsed.Having briefly worked for the mid-west's largest traveling circus as a teenager before the war, he set his not modest..