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  Joe Martin in Al G. Barnes Biography
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  Joe Martin

  Anecdote about Joe Martin in this book, Rex Ingram: Hollywood's Rebel of the Silver Screen repeats Baby Peggy's version but offers another version of Joe's tragic end.
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  Joe Martin replaces 'Tusko' as Feature

  1924 notice that Al G. Barnes has purchased Joe Martin for his circus after Universal Studios released the monkey citing him as dangerous.
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  Working with the "Big Cats"

  1922 article about animal trainers. Curly Stecker names as Bill Steckler here, probably the same person. Joe Martin featured as an organutan
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  He Likes 'Em Wild

  Another article by Emma-Lindsay Squier featuring both Curly Stecker and Joe Martin.
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  Want to Be a Movie Star, Fido?

  1920 feature in Popular Science features animal trainers and their stage ready creatures. This article shows not only an image of Curly Stecker, but also of Joe Martin as an orangutan and the infamous Charlie the elephant who would later cause the death of Curly Stecker.
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  The World's Most Hazardous Profession

  This 1925 article about movie stuntmen and their trade by Fred Gilman Jopp includes a reference to Curly Stecker and corroborates his crushing death.
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  Adventures in Captivity

  Emma-Lindsay Squier's article "Joe Martin, Gentleman" gives an inside look at animal training and Joe's behavior onset. A notoriously difficult creature to work with Joe is shown in this article to be of great intellect and compassion.