Sells Floto Circus
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The Sells Floto Circus was a combination of the Floto Dog & Pony Show and the Sells Brothers Circus that toured with sideshow acts in the United States during the early 1900s. Frederick Gilmer Bonfils and Harry Heye Tammen owned the first outfit as well as the Denver Post, and the "Floto" name came from the Post's one-time sportswriter, Otto Floto.
During the 1914-15 seasons the circus featured Buffalo Bill Cody.
By 1929 the Sells Floto was part of the American Circus Corporation, along with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, the John Robinson Circus, the Sparks Circus, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and the Al. G. Barnes Circus. John Ringling bought the conglomerate organization outright for two million dollars. With that acquisition, Ringling owned virtually every traveling circus in America, and the Sells Floto was liquidated.
[edit] See also
Marcks Family Miniature Circus
[edit] External links
- Marcks Family Circus - a miniature replica of the Sells Floto Circus
- Sells Floto Page 1914-1916 photos from the Karl King Website - includes Sells Floto routes for 1912, 1914-1916
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