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Bigtops to Billboards
By John Loring
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By John Loring
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"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 mo...