Charles Mayer (animal collector)
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Charles Mayer (animal collector)
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Charles Mayer was an American animal collector, tamer, and circus supplier. He also wrote books on his animal capture adventures and one of his books was found to have plagiarised several paragraphs from a book by an Indian elephant capture specialist. Originally from Binghamton, New York, Mayer ran away at age seventeen to join the Sells Brothers Circus as an elephant trainer. Mayer reported that circus owner J. A. Bailey eventually sent him to India to bring back elephants. Per his own reports
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American animal collector, plagiarist (~1862–1927)
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2024-02-05T23:02:40Z
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