This Week in Texas History: Daring young Texan on the flying trapeze

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The unique and fascinating life of Vander Clyde ended where it started, his birthplace of Round Rock, when the celebrated star of the trapeze and high-wire died by his own hand Aug. 5, 1973.“The first time my mother took me to the circus in Austin, I knew I would be a performer,” Clyde once said of…

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