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(Research for this episode turned up a lot of inconsistent dates and references to elephants by different names, ages, heights, weights, etc.--there doesn’t seem to be a consensus on where the Crowninshield elephant ended up or if Old Bet was the first or second elephant in America. I did my best to reference only the most apparently legitimate sources in my storytelling, but recognize that opinions differ on some details.)

• The First Living Elephant in America
• Memorial to Betty the Learned Elephant – Glocester, Rhode Island
• Off The Path Revisited: The Elephant Man
• An Elephant is Murdered in Chepachet in 1826 - Online Review of Rhode Island History
• Betty The Learned Elephant
• Elephant Shot In Chepachet – 1826
• Walking Tour Chepachet, RI
• American Heritage | Setting the Record Straight on Old Bet
• The Crowninshield Elephant
• The First Living Elephant in America
• A PACHYDERM'S TALE
• Old Bet
• American Circus Anthology, Traveling Menagerie
• The Elephant Comes to America
• Killing the Elephant: Murderous Beasts and the Thrill of Retribution
• Town of Somers History Beasts and Ballyhoo Menagerie Men of Somers
• America’s Big Circus Spectacular Has a Long and Cherished History
• Old Bet: The first circus elephant brought to the US was killed by a religious fanatic
• RANDOM NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE EARLY AMERICAN CIRCUS
• Never Forget - Down East
• Year Without a Summer
• Was America’s First Circus Elephant in Haverhill?
• Elephants in the (Reading) Room