Werner, M. R.

Barnum / by M. R. Werner. - Garden City, New York : Garden City publishing co., inc., 1926. - viii, 380 p. : ill., plates, portraits ; 21 cm.

With hardcover To James Shelley Hamilton.

Bibliogr.: pp. 373-376; index: pp. 377-381

Cont.: The Connecticut Yankee -- Growing pains -- Barnum's American museum -- Travels with a midget -- His brother's keeper -- Jenny Lind -- The Swedish nightingale in the American woods -- Sundries and an autobiography -- Humbugged and bankrupt -- The art of money-getting -- The dwarfs' duel, or the marriage of the midgets -- This world and the next -- The circus -- Old age -- Not my will, but thine, be done.


Barnum, P. T . 1810-1891 (Phineas Taylor)