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Roman spectacle on the Rio Grande : borderland animal fights at the turn of the century /

How the gladiatorial games of ancient Rome appeared on the Texas frontier. From 1895 to 1913, promoters on the Texas-Mexico border imported a variety of large mammals from around the world to pit them against one another in interspecies combat. Lions fought bears, an elephant took on a bull and one...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Folsom, Bradley, 1979- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Charleston, South Carolina : History Press, [2024].
Subjects:	Animal fighting > Mexican-American Border Region > History. Animal fighting > Texas > History.

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