They may be planting violets on me tomorrow, but while I have my health and strength, I'd rather take care of 10 tigers than a sick person. — Mabel Stark (image via The Library of Congress) Mabel devoted 60 years of her life to tigers. Throughout the 1930s, she worked as a performer in multiple circuses, first as a dancer and then as an animal trainer. Then she started working as an animal trainer at Jungleland, an amusement park in California, where she drew crowds impressed by her her own daring feats of strength (in one famous performance series, she even wrestled tigers on command).
A Woman to Know: Mabel Stark
A Woman to Know: Mabel Stark
A Woman to Know: Mabel Stark
They may be planting violets on me tomorrow, but while I have my health and strength, I'd rather take care of 10 tigers than a sick person. — Mabel Stark (image via The Library of Congress) Mabel devoted 60 years of her life to tigers. Throughout the 1930s, she worked as a performer in multiple circuses, first as a dancer and then as an animal trainer. Then she started working as an animal trainer at Jungleland, an amusement park in California, where she drew crowds impressed by her her own daring feats of strength (in one famous performance series, she even wrestled tigers on command).