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Dan Castello Circus Advertisement in 1869 Deseret Newspaper. Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, 1869. Broadsheet newspaper, twelve pages, being Vol. XVIII, No. 19 of the Deseret News of Salt Lake City, June 16, 1869, and containing a full-column advertisement with illustration for Castello’s Circus, Menagerie, and Abyssinian Caravan. Near fine. When P.T. Barnum reentered show business in 1871, following some three years after his New York museum burned down, his partners were W.C. Coup and the manager of this circus, Dan Castello. He organized his own show around 1864. The 1869 tour began in the South and traveled north to Virginia, then turned west to Tennessee, Kansas, and eventually the coast. It was the first circus to go coast to coast in a single season.