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Portions of this work have appeared in Issac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and Asimov's SF
Adventure Magazine
This Berkley book contains the complete
text of the original hardcover edition.
It has been completely reset in a type face
designed for easy reading, and was printed
from new film.
CITY OF BARABOO
A Berkley Book / published by arrangement with . the author
PRINTING HISTORY
Berkley-Putnam edition published July 1980 Berkley edition / August 1981
All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1980 by Barry B. Longyear.
Cover Illustration by John Rush.
This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part,
by mimeograph or any other means, without permission.
For information address: Berkley Publishing Corporation,
200 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016.
ISBN: 0-425-04940-X A BERKLEY BOOK(r) TM 757,375
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
After subtracting the many debts I owe in the researching and writing of City of Baraboo, I find
little remaining save the responsibility for whatever inaccuracies that managed to escape
detection before they saw print. First, for suggesting the development of the star-circus idea
used in one of my short stories, and for many suggestions that should earn him a generously
declined byline, my thanks to George Scithers, editor of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.
Special thanks go to Robert L. Parkinson, Chief Librarian and Historian of the Circus World Museum
in Baraboo, Wisconsin, for taking a highly unreasonable request for information and supplying it.
Sincere thanks go, as well, to Betty Austin, Colleen Condon, and Barbara Watt of the Cutler
Memorial Library in Farmington, Maine, for their long hours of searching that produced several
invaluable circus histories the absence of which would have made this book, at least in its
present form, impossible. Many thanks also go to Glenys Gifford of the Mantor Library at the
University of Maine at Farmington both for the books she found for me, and for the length of time
I was allowed to keep them.
My remaining thanks go to my chief critic, first reader, researcher, copy clerk, and wife, Jean.
To George H. Scithers
and My Wife, Jean
CONTENTS
I The Last Show on Earth 1
II Follow the Red Wagons 49
IE Working the Route Book 77
IV The Slick Gentlemen 107
V Sweet Revenge 135
VI In the Cart 177
Aftershow 208
The Company 212
The Last Show On Earth
EDITION 2142
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