Meregaglia publishes on female tiger trainer Mabel Stark

Albertsons Library Associate Professor and Archivist Alessandro Meregaglia published "The Inspiring and tragic story of Mabel Stark, America;s most famous female tiger trainer" in The Conversation US on March 3, 2026.

An excerpt from the article reads:

"But before Joe Exotic, there was Mabel Stark. Often described as America's most famous female tiger trainer, the Tiger Queen was renowned for her pluck and charisma.

While researching Caxton Printers, the publisher of Stark's autobiography, I came across unpublished archival material about Stark's long career training animals. Like Joe Exotic, Stark had a knack for the spotlight. But even more impressively, she did it under the scrutiny of being a woman in a male-dominated world, while caring for her animals with love rather than fear."

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