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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Agnes Lake Hickok: Queen of the Circus, Wife of a Legend

Agnes Lake Hickok: Queen of the Circus, Wife of a Legend

Fisher, Linda A.
Bowers, Carolyn M.

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Biographies GeneralHistorical FiguresCaribbean, Latin American & South American Art

ISBN10: 0806165448
ISBN13: 9780806165448
Publisher: Univ Of Oklahoma Pr
Published: Jan 16 2020
Pages: 412
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.92 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The first woman in America to own and operate a circus, Agnes Lake spent thirty years under the Big Top before becoming the wife of Wild Bill Hickok--a mere five months before he was killed. Although books abound on the famous lawman, Agnes's life has remained obscured by circus myth and legend.

Linda A. Fisher and Carrie Bowers have written the first biography of this colorful but little-known circus performer. Agnes originally found fame as a slack-wire walker and horseback rider, and later as an animal trainer. Her circus career spanned more than four decades. Following the murder of her first husband, Bill Lake, she was the sole manager of the Hippo-Olympiad and Mammoth Circus. While taking her show to Abilene, she met town marshal Hickok and five years later she married him. After Hickok's death, Agnes traveled with P. T. Barnum and Buffalo Bill Cody, and managed her daughter Emma Lake's successful equestrian career.

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