In Wisconsin Williams worked at the Briggs Hotel and the "saloon business" and took up "horse training as a hobby.

Based in Wisconsin, this show was made up of fifteen railroad cars, fifty horses, and 150 people, and would tour every season until 1893.

In 1897, the Freeman newspaper reported that he was "the only Negro circus owner in America" and owned 200 Arabian horses and employed 75 men.

In Cleveland, Mississippi some white boys struck one of the horses in the show causing it to bled and fall.

[8] After losing his "dog-and-pony circus" in bad weather, he invested in the Silas Green from New Orleans, originally owned by Salem Tutt Whitney.