The American Circus Corporation consisted of the Sells-Floto Circus, the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, the John Robinson Circus, the , and the Al G. Barnes Circus. It was owned by , Bert Bowers and . They sold the company in 1929 to John Nicholas Ringling for $1.7 million ($26.8 million today). With that acquisition, Ringling owned virtually every traveling circus in America.