Nonfiction · 1891
A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career
Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum
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Contents
- Introductory
- 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 XXVI — 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 — 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
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