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Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum

by Joel Benton

Pages: 628

Contributors: Joel Benton

Publisher: Edgewood Publishing

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publication Year: 1891

Subjects: Barnum, P. T--(Phineas Taylor),--1810-1891,Circus Owners--United States--Biography

Table of Contents

Title Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Chapter I: In the Beginning.

Chapter II: Early Years at Bethel.

Chapter III: Business Life.

Chapter IV: Trying Many Ventures.

Chapter V: Beginning as a Showman.

Chapter VI: Incidents of a Circus Tour.

Chapter VII: Hard Times.

Chapter VIII: The American Museum.

Chapter IX: Increased Popularity of the Museum.

Chapter X: Giants and Dwarfs.

Chapter XI: Tom Thumb in London.

Chapter XII: In France.

Chapter XIII: In Belgium.

Chapter XIV: In England Again.

Chapter XV: At Home.

Chapter XVI: Jenny Lind.

Chapter XVII: Arrival of Jenny Lind.

Chapter XVIII: Continued Triumph.

Chapter XIX: Havana.

Chapter XX: The Trials of an Impressario.

Chapter XXI: Closing the Grand Tour.

Chapter XXII: A Few Side Issues.

Chapter XXIII: Some Domestic Enterprises.

Chapter XXIV: The Jerome Clock Company.

Chapter XXV: The Wheat and the Chaff.

Chapter XVII: Idleness without Rest.

Chapter XXVII: A Prosperous Exile.

Chapter XXVIII: Home Again.

Chapter XXIX: The Art of Money Getting.

Chapter XXX: An Enterprising Englishman.

Chapter XXXI: At Home Again

Chapter XXXII: The Story of "Grizzly Adams."

Chapter XXXIII: Building a City.

Chapter XXXIV: A Great Year at the Museum.

Chapter XXXV: General and Mrs. Tom Thumb.

Chapter XXXVI: Political Notes.

Chapter XXXVII: Burning of the American Museum.

Chapter XXXVIII: Political Life.

Chapter XXXIX: Fighting a Newspaper

Chapter XL: Bridgeport.

Chapter XLI: Honors and Adulations.

Some Reminiscences of P. T. Barnum

The Funeral

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