Mighty Mary
Mary was a circus elephant. The Star of the West. She could dance, play the trumpet and pleased crowds wherever she went. In 1916, after a disastrous Wild West show in Erwin Tennessee, acts against Mary the five-ton Indian elephant would go down in history as one of the most disturbing bizarre...
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Mary was a circus elephant. The Star of the West. She could dance, play the trumpet and pleased crowds wherever she went.
In 1916, after a disastrous Wild West show in Erwin Tennessee, acts against Mary the five-ton Indian elephant would go down in history as one of the most disturbing bizarre cases of animal cruelty the world has ever seen.
But, Mary had a life before the circus. She was free once. Part of a wild herd.
During the British Raj, she was captured, trained and sent to America to become a spectacle. Along the way, she loved, she lost, she made friends and formed bonds. She suffered heartache and experienced ecstasy. She was a living being.
This is her story.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781644673393 (1644673398)
Publish date: 2018-12-05
Publisher: Tamarind Hill Press
Pages no: 450
Edition language: English
A herd of elephants roams peacefully around India in the late 1800's under the watchful eye of their matriarch. The matriarch recently gave birth and her baby watches mom carefully as she makes friends, plays and watches for predators. As the herd migrates, they notice that the funny apes keep gett...