Big Top, Little Town
Jun 25, 2019
2 minutes
—SUSAN SALAZ
Peru Amateur Circus
For that, this town of 11,000 can thank Benjamin Wallace, a native son whose Great World Menageries and International Circus opened to a sell-out Peru crowd in early 1884. It became one of the country’s most successful shows, returning to Wallace’s winter quarters in Peru each year. That property eventually landed in the
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