Mattie Lee Price: The Forgotten Georgia Wonder

She was a family legend, a nameless woman who had performed in the Barnum & Bailey Circus in London, England in the late 1800’s.

There was no bible, no record, no remnant of this circus star to remember her by. Family elders said she was an acrobat, a rider of white horses, and an American Indian who had run away from the reservation as a child to join the circus.

In reality, she was not an acrobat, a rider of white horses, or Indian. She was the second of the Georgia Wonder girls who came onto the entertainment scene in the early 1880’s.