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Life of P. T. Barnum

by Joel Benton

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  1. 1Chapter I — In the Beginning
  2. 2Chapter II — Early Years at Bethel
  3. 3Chapter III — Business Life
  4. 4Chapter IV — Trying Many Ventures
  5. 5Chapter V — Beginning as a Showman
  6. 6Chapter VI — Incidents of a Circus Tour
  7. 7Chapter VII — Hard Times
  8. 8Chapter VIII — The American Museum
  9. 9Chapter IX — Increased Popularity of the Museum
  10. 10Chapter X — Giants and Dwarfs
  11. 11Chapter XI — Tom Thumb in London
  12. 12Chapter XII — In France
  13. 13Chapter XIII — In Belgium
  14. 14Chapter XIV — In England Again
  15. 15Chapter XV — At Home
  16. 16Chapter XVI — Jenny Lind
  17. 17Chapter XVII — Arrival of Jenny Lind
  18. 18Chapter XVIII — Continued Triumph
  19. 19Chapter XIX — Havana
  20. 20Chapter XX — The Trials of an Impressario
  21. 21Chapter XXI — Closing the Grand Tour
  22. 22Chapter XXII — A Few Side Issues
  23. 23Chapter XXIII — Some Domestic Enterprises
  24. 24Chapter XXIV — The Jerome Clock Company
  25. 25Chapter XXV — The Wheat and the Chaff
  26. 26Chapter XXVI — Idleness Without Rest
  27. 27Chapter XXVII — A Prosperous Exile
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII — Home Again
  29. 29Chapter XXIX — The Art of Money Getting
  30. 30Chapter XXX — An Enterprising Englishman
  31. 31Chapter XXXI — At Home Again
  32. 32Chapter XXXII — The Story of “Grizzly Adams”
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII — Building a City
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV — Great Year at the Museum
  35. 35Chapter XXXV — General and Mrs. Tom Thumb
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI — Political Notes
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII — Burning of the American Museum
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII — Political Life
  39. 39Chapter XXXIX — Fighting a Newspaper
  40. 40Chapter XL — Bridgeport
  41. 41Chapter XLI — Honors and Adulations
  42. 42Some Reminiscences of P. T. Barnum

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