The first large (three-ring) circus to come to North Dakota was Barnum & Bailey's "Greatest Show on Earth," when they entertained the citizens of Fargo Aug. 18, 1888.
Through the second half of the 19th century, balloons and dirigibles tantalized inventors with the idea of heavier-than-air flight. Gliders led to the Wright brothers’ Kitty Hawk powered flight in
The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus has been reimagined and reborn without animals as a high-octane family event with highwire tricks, soaring trapeze artists and bicycles leaping on