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May 15 — Baraboo, Wis. Sunday 17 — Mazomanie, Wis. 18 — Blue Mounds, Wis. 19 — Dodgeville, Wis. 20 — Linden, Wis. 21 — Highland, Wis. 22 — Montfort, Wis. Sunday 24 — Fennimore, Wis. 25 — Bloomington, Wis. 26 — Prairie du Chien, Wis. 27 — Manona, Iowa 28 — Waukon, Iowa 29 — Dorchester, Iowa Sunday 31 — Caledonia, Minn. June 1 — Houston, Minn. 2 — Rushford, Minn. 3 — Lewiston, Minn. 4 — St. Charles, Minn. 5 — Eyota, Minn. Sunday 7 — Chatfield, Minn. 8 — Fountain, Minn. 9 — Preston, Minn. 10 — Spring Valley, Minn. 11 — Leroy, Minn. 12 — Grand Meadows, Minn. Sunday 14 — Brownsdale, Minn. 15 — Lyle, Minn. 16 — St. Ansgar, Iowa 17 — Northwood, Iowa 18 — Lake Mills, Iowa 19 — Alden, Minn. Sunday 21 — Wells, Minn. 22 — Blue Earth, Minn. 23 — Winnebago City, Minn. 24 — Mapleton, Minn. 25 — Minnesota Lake, Minn. 26 — New Richland, Minn. Sunday 28 — Waseca, Minn. 29 — Janesville, Minn. 30 — Waterville, Minn. July 1 — Montgomery, Minn. 2 — Le Sueur Center, Minn. 3 — St. Peter, Minn. Sunday 5 — Henderson, Minn. 6 — Belle Plaine, Minn. 7 — New Prague, Minn. 8 — Northfield, Minn. 9 — Farmington, Minn. 10 — Cannon Falls, Minn. Sunday 12 — Kenyon, Minn. 13 — Zumbrota, Minn. 14 — Pine Island, Minn. 15 — Mazeppa, Minn. 16 — Plainview, Minn. 17 — Dover, Minn. Sunday 19 — Lanesboro, Minn. 20 — Canton, Minn. 21 — Mabel, Minn. 22 — Decorah, Iowa 23 — Ossian, Iowa 24 — West Union, Iowa Sunday 26 — Elgin, Iowa 27 — Elkader, Iowa 28 — Volga, Iowa 29 — Endfield, Iowa

July 30 — Brush Creek, Iowa 31 — Oelwein, Iowa Sunday August 2 — Sumner, Iowa 3 — Tripoli, Iowa 4 — Waverly, Iowa 5 — Nashua, Iowa 6 — Greene, Iowa 7 — Rockford, Iowa Sunday 9 — Sheffield, Iowa 10 — Hampton, Iowa 11 — Dows, Iowa 12 — Belmond, Iowa 13 — Clarion, Iowa 14 — Eagle Grove, Iowa Sunday 16 — Webster City, Iowa 17 — Lehigh, Iowa 18 — Cowrie, Iowa 19 — Lohrville, Iowa 20 — Lake City, Iowa 21 — Rockwell City, Iowa Sunday 23 — Sac City, Iowa 24 — Odebolt, Iowa 25 — Vail, Iowa 26 — Manning, Iowa 27 — Audubon, Iowa 28 — Exira, Iowa Sunday 30 — Anita, Iowa 31 — Adair, Iowa September 1 — Casey, Iowa 2 — Guthrie Center, Iowa 3- — Bayard, Iowa 4 — Coon Rapids, Iowa Sunday 6 — Scranton, Iowa 7 — Jefferson, Iowa 8 — Ogden, Iowa 9 — Perry, Iowa 10 — Woodward, Iowa 11 — Polk City, Iowa Sunday 13 — Cambridge, Iowa 14 — Maxwell, Iowa 15 — Nevada, Iowa 16 — Zearing, Iowa 17 — Union, Iowa 18 — Gladbrook, Iowa Sunday 20 — Reinbeck, Iowa 21 — Traer, Iowa 22 — Dysart, Iowa 23 — Vinton, Iowa 24 — Center Point, Iowa 25 — Central City, Iowa Sunday 27 — Earlville, Iowa 28 — Greeley, Iowa 29 — Elkport, Iowa 30 — Cassville, Wis. October 1 — Lancaster, Wis. 2 — Potosi, Wis. Sunday 4 — Belmont, Wis. 5 — Shullsburg, Wis. 6 — Darlington, Wis. 7 — Mineral Point, Wis. 8 — Ridgeway, Wis. 9 — Spring Green, Wis. End of Season Winter Quarters: Baraboo, Wis.

From: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, Inc. Route Book for 1946. Sarasota, FL: F. B. Kelley, Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus, 1946. Permission to place the information from this route book on the Circus Historical Society website has been provided by Feld Entertainment, Inc.™, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey™.

Editor's Note: A feature of the 1945 Circus Route Book was a compilation of the old Barnum routes from 1871 through 1918, the season before the combining of Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth and Ringling Brothers World's Greatest Shows. Bill Chipman, a member of the editorial staff of the New York Daily News and a prominent circus historian, supplied the old Barnum routes and this year has compiled the old Ringling routes. In these tasks, he has been aided by other circus enthusiasts including John P. Grace, Chas. A. Davitt, Charles G. Sturtevant, Dr. H. H. Conley, Jenks Cameron, Alexander Clarke, Melvin D. Hildreth and Sverre Braathen.

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