The Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers, Americas Greatest Shows Consolidated, The Miraculous Melrosas; The Only Marvelously Magical Mid-Air Riders of the Standard Wheel, poster. Copyright by Courier Company in 1900, Buffalo, NY. Adam Forepaugh was an American entrepreneur and businessman who owned several different circuses. The Sells Brothers Circus was started by Lewis and Peter Sells and eventually merged with the Forepaugh Circus to form the Forepaugh and Sells Brothers Circus in 1900.