Circus Boy (1956)

After purchasing a bankrupt circus, Big Tim Champion discovers and unofficially adopts Corky, an orphaned and homeless boy whose parents, the Flying Falcons, were killed in a tragic high-wire act. Stories, set on the frontier in the latter half of the nineteenth century, concern the struggles endured by the traveling one-ring Champion Circus, and the adventures of Corky, water boy to Bimbo the elephant.