I'm advancing in leaps and bounds here, rather laying down ideas and fleshing them out just a tiny bit to later on link them together. This bit of text, BTW, needed quite a bit of documentation. First one was [this USA railway map](http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/1865a6.jpg), I wanted to take them by railway straight from Mobile to New Orleans but didn't take into account that mighty Mississippi was on the way. I'm finding also [Circus History](http://www.circushistory.org/) an invaluable resource. I'll have to keep reading and documenting myself, since it seems that lots of things, and even the main ones, are going to happen there