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Vera’s Life in the Circus was a Zoo

by | Mar 30, 2023 | Classic True West, Features & Gunfights

Her $10 greenhorn mistake didn’t help. The first time Vera McGinnis entered the Big Top at Madison Square Garden in New York City, she looked like a giant Dresden doll. She was atop a black horse, wearing a gigantic hoopskirt that hung from her waist, its flounces reaching the ground. Her head held a giant picture hat with ostrich plumes.   Vera looked like a Dresden doll when she was all dolled up in this outrageous get


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