The Circus Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin has some historic wagons that were used by the cowboy heroes including Buck Jones, Ken Maynard and Tom Mix: http://circusworld.wisconsinhistory.org/Info on the Miller Bros. 101 Ranch Show can be found at:
http://www.kaycounty.info/101_ranch/101_frame.htm
http://www.travelhistory.org/people+places/ChristmasAt101Ranch/ChristmasAt101Ranch-01.html
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nalakota/wotw/misc/101ranch_wotw1137.htmInfo about the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show is at: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tri127.html
William (Buckles) Woodcock has a blog on circus history, and included are pages (with images) on Ken Maynard's 1936 Wild West Show:
http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2005/10/ken-maynard-1.html
http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2005/10/ken-maynard-wild-west-1936-4.html
http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2005/10/ken-maynard-wild-west-1936-3.html
http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2005/10/ken-maynard-wild-west-1936-1_19.html
http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2005/10/ken-maynard-wild-west-1936-1.htmlThe San Diego History website mentions the Ken Maynard Wild West show being booked for the California Pacific Exposition, San Diego, 1935-1936:
http://sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1936.htm
http://sandiegohistory.org/calpac/35expoh5.htm
http://sandiegohistory.org/photocollect/palist2.htmThe Circus Historical Society website has a Bandwagon magazine article by Stuart Thayer on the last years of the Tom Mix Circus, seasons 1936-1938: http://www.circushistory.org/Bandwagon/bw-1971May.htm
That Circus Historical Society website has a large image of a 1935 poster of Tom Mix's Circus: http://www.circushistory.org/Photos/Photo1f.htm
The Circus Historical Society website has a large image of a wagon used in Ken Maynard's circus. The caption on the photo notes: "In 1936 Ken Maynard opened his Diamond K Wild West show. He used many old Christy wagons, nearly all carried the diamond with a "K" in the center.": http://www.circushistory.org/Photos/Photo3a.htm
The Circus Historical Society website has many detailed articles (which were published in their Bandwagon magazine) on the history of the Cole Bros. Circus. Ken Maynard's own Diamond K Wild West Show was short-lived, and in the mid 1930s, he signed on with the Cole Bros. Circus (who also had animal trainer Clyde Beatty). These articles are lengthy and I suggest you use the Search box in your web browser to find references to Maynard:
"A History of the Cole Bros. Circus 1935-40" (By Joseph T. Bradbury. Bandwagon, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Mar-Apr), 1966, pp. 12-21):
http://www.circushistory.org/Bandwagon/bw-1966Mar.htm
"A History of the Cole Bros. Circus 1935-40, Part III [sic VIII], the 1937 Season Continued" (By Joseph T. Bradbury. Bandwagon, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Jul-Aug), 1966, pp. 11-17.):
http://www.circushistory.org/Bandwagon/bw-1966Jul.htm
"History of the Cole Bros., Part V, The 1936 Season" (Joseph T. Bradbury. Bandwagon, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Jan-Feb), 1966, pp. 15-25):
http://www.circushistory.org/Bandwagon/bw-1966Jan.htm
"Cole Bros. Circus, The 1937 Season, Part VII, First Half" (By Joseph T. Bradbury. Bandwagon, Vol. 10, No. 3 (May-Jun), 1966, pp. 20-27):
http://www.circushistory.org/Bandwagon/bw-1966May.htm
"A History of the Cole Bros. Circus 1935-40, Part IX - The 1938 Season, Cole Bros." (By Joseph T. Bradbury. Bandwagon, Vol. 10, No. 5 (Sep-Oct), 1966, pp. 14-20):
http://www.circushistory.org/Bandwagon/bw-1966Sep.htm
"A History of the Cole Bros. Circus 1935-40, Part XI - the 1938 Season" (By Joseph T. Bradbury. Bandwagon, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Mar-Apr), 1967, pp. 14-25):
http://www.circushistory.org/Bandwagon/bw-1967Mar.htm
"A History of the Cole Bros. Circus 1935-40, Part XIII, The 1940 Season" (By Joseph T. Bradbury. Bandwagon, Vol. 11, No. 5 (Sep-Oct), 1967, pp. 16-30):
http://www.circushistory.org/Bandwagon/bw-1967Sep.htm
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