Chief Willie Bowlegs: A Seminole in the Sideshows
"Chief" Willie Bowlegs (1896-1964) was a sword swallower, alligator wrestler, knife thrower and juggler from the Everglades of Florida. A full-blooded Seminole, he was named in apparent homage to the great chief of that nation Holata Micco (ca 1810-1864), nicknamed Billy Bowlegs, who had led his people during the Second and Third Seminole Wars. The […]