Bigtops to Billboards

"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 modes