Roman Spectacle on the Rio Grande
Folsom, Bradley![Roman Spectacle on the Rio Grande](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/452/45261406/CHSBZCOP0345261406.jpg)
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 promoter released a tiger, a bull, and a bear into the same cage at the same time. Human combatants occasionally entered the fray, from a rodeo pi...