P.T. BARNUM - FASCINATING ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY 

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P.T. Barnum: The Legend and the Man
by Arthur H. Saxon
Hardcover, 6" x 9 1/4", 442 pages, new and in mint condition.
Illustrated with forty-eight pages of rare black and white photos.

From the back cover:

Nearly a century after his death, every American knows something about P.T. Barnum and his many personae: We know him as a circus proprietor and founder of "The Greatest Show on Earth," or we know him as the discoverer of General Tom Thumb, the midget, and the impresario of the renowned Swedish singer Jenny Lind, or perhaps we know him as a man addicted to practical jokes, whose most memorable pronouncement is supposed to have been "there's a sucker born every minute."

This "Prince of Humbugs," as he was called, was the Walt Disney of the 19th century, the first great American showman entrepreneur. In this colorful biography Arthur Saxon explores this "legend in his own time," and presents a truer, less cliche-ridden picture of the man than anyone so far has done. By delving into much heretofore unpublished material - Barnum's letters, his daughter's diaries, his private secretary's office diary, Barnum's daily memorandum and address books, contracts, and other documents. Saxon reveals the Barnum was, paradoxically, very much a private person and a deeply religious man.

INDEX

A
Aberdeen, Earl of • Adams (General) • Amos Adams ("Black Amos") • John Adams ("Grizzly") • Joseph Addison • Adelaide (widow of William IV, Queen Dowager of England) • Alexander Agassiz • Louis Agassiz • Zalumma Agra ("Star of the East") • Josephine Ahmansson • Albert (bad elephant) • Prince Albert (Victoria's consort) • Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bailey Aldrich • Alexandra, Princess of Wales • Alexis (equestrian goat) • Alice (Jumbo's wife) • Isaac Van Amburgh • John Amerman • Mary Amerman (Barnum's sister) • Hans Christian Andersen • Robert Anderson (Major-General) • John Henry Anderson ("The Wizard of the North") • Lewis F.W. Andrews • Susan B. Anthony • "Signor Antonio" • Argyll, Duke of • George Arstingstall • John Jacob Astor • John James Audubon • "Aunt Nelly" (deceased Negress) • Ephraim K. Avery • "Aztec Children"

B
John Bachman • George F. Bailey • Hackaliah Bailey • James A. Bailey • Mrs. James A. Bailey (née McCaddon) • Robert Baird • Spencer F. Baird • Mr. Baker • Thomas Ball • Hosea Ballou • Moses Ballou • Betty Bank • J. Barbey d'Aurevilly • "Barnum" (alcoholic circus employee) • Caroline Cordelia Barnum (Barnum's daughter married David W. Thompson) • Charity ("Chairy") Hallett Barnum (Barnum's first wife) • Ephraim Barnum • Ephraim Barnum II (Barnum's grandfather) • Helen Barnum (Barnum's daughter - married Samuel L. Hurd then William H. Buchtel) • Henry Barnum • Irena Taylor Barnum (Barnum's mother) • Lewis S. Barnum • Llewellyn Barnum • Nancy Fish Barnum (Barnum's second wife) • Pauline Barnum (Barnum's daughter – married Nathan Seeley) • Philo Barnum (Barnum's father) • Philo Fairchild Barnum (Barnum's half-brother) • P.T. Barnum (Phineas Taylor) • Starr Barnum (Barnum's uncle) • Starr H. Barnum • Thomas Barnum • William H. Barnum (the "Iron Barnum") • Elizabeth Barrett • A.D. Bartlett • Coley Bartram • Edmund C. Bassick • Henry L. Bateman • Kate and Ellen Bateman • Joshua Bates • Martin Bates • William Batty • Alfred Ely Beach • Henry D. Beach • Moses Sperry Beach • Moses Yale Beach • Jonathan Beebe • Rachel Starr Beebe (Barnum's grandmother - married Ephraim Barnum 2d) • Edward Beecher • Henry Ward Beecher • Lyman Beecher • Emma Beers • Nathan Beers (Charity's uncle) • Nathaniel P. Beers ("Nate") • Wallace Beery • Giovanni Belletti • August Belmont • Charles Benedict (Barnum's nephew) • Charles Washington Benedict (Barnum's grandnephew) • Cordelia Benedict (Barnum's sister) • Henry Benedict • Julius Benedict • Zerah Benedict • Henry Bennett • James Gordon Bennett • Mrs. James Gordon Bennett • Joel Benton • Thomas Hart Benton • Henry Bergh • Henry Bergh Jr. • Sarah Bernhardt • Bessie (Barnum's pet cow) • Joseph Bessimer ("Paper Collar Joe") • Albert S. Bickmore • William D. Bishop • Sylvester Bleeker • Antonio Blitz ("Signor") • Robert Bonner • Edwin Booth • Reuben Booth • Dion Boucicault • August Bournonville • John S. Bowling • William Bowling • Henry E. Bowser • Jennie Bowser • Hugh Brady • Mathew Brady • Benjamin Brandreth • Thomas Brettell • Alvin C. Breul Jr. • Mildred Breul • Bridgeport (baby elephant) • Charles R. Brothwell • Olympia Brown • T. Allston Brown • George S. Bryan • William Cullen Bryant • Bucephalus (Barnum's horse) • Henry Buchtel • John R. Buchtel • Leila Buchtel (Barnum's granddaughter) • William H. Buchtel • William A. Buckingham • Ole Bull • Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump • Bump family • Chang and Eng Bunker ("Siamese Twins") • Alfred Bunn • George B. Bunnell • Baroness Burdett-Coutts • Sarah J. Burke • Charles Burns • David Burr • J.B. Burr • W.A. Bushnell • Henry D. Butler • Lord George Gordon Byron

C
Cadotte (half-breed Indian) • Philo C. Calhoun • Dimitri Callias • John Calvin • Cambridge, Duke of • Jane Campbell • Mrs. Candee • Elmer H. Capen • George W. Carleton • Thomas Carlyle • Christopher "Kit" Carson • Richard D'Oyly Carte • Alice Cary • Charles P. Cary • Phoebe Cary • Theodore Case • Dan Castello (John Costello) • George Catlin • Paul du Chaillu • Edwin H. Chapin • Lord Randolph Churchill • Lady Randolph Churchill • B.P. Cilley • G. Ciprico • Tennessee Celeste Claflin ("Claffin") • Louis Gaylord Clark • Corson W. Clarke ("Drunkard Clarke") • R.T. Clarke • Livy Clemens (Mark Twain's wife) • Samuel Clemens • Grover Cleveland • Josephine Fortune Clofullia • Isaac P. Coddington ("Ike") • William F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill") • Erastus Cole • William W. Cole ("Chilly Billy") • Lord Chief Justice Coleridge • Schuyler Colfax • Robert Collyer • Columbia (baby elephant) • William A. Conant • George Conklin • Henry J. Conway • James E. Cooper • Miss Cornell (murdered) • Djordji Costentenus • William C. Coup • Prudence Crandall • Forrest Crissey • Frederick Croswell • Henry Cummins • Carlos Curtis • Joseph Cushing • Pauline Cushman • George Custer • Theodore Cuyler

D
David Daggett • Grace Darling • Charles R. Darwin • James R. Davis • Jefferson Davis • Thomas H. Davis • Dora Dawron • Charles F. Deems • Cecil B. De Mille • Tony Denier • John Diamond ("Master Diamond") • Charles Dickens • Daniel S. Dickinson • G.W. Dillingham • Benjamin Disraeli (Lord Beaconsfield) • Thomas P. Dixon • Ossian E. Dodge • Washington H. Donaldson • Admiral Dot (Leopold Kahn) • William Dunlap • Catherine Dunmore (Countess of Dunmore)

E
Mary Eastlake • Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh • Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) • Leopold Eidlitz • Elliott Children (cycling act) • Miss Ellis (Barnum's housekeeper) • Edward S. Ellis • Fanny EIssler • Miss Elston (married Commodore Nutt) • George H. Emerson • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Eugenie (Empress of the French) • Edward Everett

F
Professor Faber (inventor) • Ernestine de Faiber (also "Fieber") • Horace Fairchild • Polly Fairchild (Philo Barnum's first wife) • G.A. Farini (real name Hunt) • O.J. Ferguson • Orris S. Ferry • Kate Field • Maunsell B. Field • Robert Fillingham Jr. • Millard Fillmore • Miss Fish (Nancy Barnum's older sister - later Mrs. William Eagle?) • Benjamin Fish • John Fish • John Fish Jr. • Nancy Fish • Sarah J. Fish • Lewis B. Fisher • Theophilus Fisk • Stuart Berg Flexner • Gordon Ford • Adam Forepaugh • Adam Forepaugh Jr. • Edwin Forrest • LaFayette S. Foster • Mrs. LaFayette S. Foster • Franconi family • Benjamin Franklin • John Franklin • John C. Frémont • C.D. French (real name Fitzhugh)

G
Mary Gannon • Professor Gardner (the "New-England Soap Man") • James A. Garfield • J.B. Gaylord • John N. Genin • Elbridge T. Gerry • William E. Gladstone • Charles C. Godfrey • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Otto Goldschmidt • George B. Goode • Julius J. Gorham • Leonard Gosling • Ulysses S. Grant • Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant • Z. Graves • Horace Greeley • Charles Green • John Greenwood Jr. • Lennie Grimaldi • Giulia Grisi • Rufus Griswold • W. Guernsey • Emile Guillaudeu • Gunner (police captain) • Guy of Warwick

H
Thomas H. Hadaway • Carl Hagenbeck • John A. Halderman • Benjamin W. Hallett • Charity Hallett • Hannah Hallett • John Hallett • R.F. Hamilton ("Tody") • Sylvia Hardy • George P. Harlow • Claudius Harris • Neil Harris • Benjamin Harrison • Joseph W. Harrison • "Caspar Hauser" • Kaspar Hauser • Henry Hawley • Joseph Roswell Hawley • Nathaniel Hawthorne • Benjamin Haydon • Catharine Hayes • Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes ("Lemonade Lucy") • John Heath • George Heilge • Robert Hendershot • Henry (Barnum's employee at Iranistan) • Henry (Barnum's onetime partner) • Joseph Henry • John Herschel • Joice Heth • Horace E. Hickok • Hickok family (Bethel) • Thomas Wentworth Higginson • David K. Hitchcock • Fordyce Hitchcock ("Parson") • Max Hjortsberg • O.J. Hodge • Frank Hoffman • Richard Hoffman • Mr. Holly (editor) • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Isabella Beecher Hooker • John Hooker • F.E. Hopkins • A. McGregor Hopper • William T. Hornaday • Cordelia Howard • Mr. and Mrs. George C. Howard • Elias Howe Jr. • Seth B. Howes • Benjamin Hoyt • Robert Hubbard • George A. Hubbell • George Hull • Leigh Hunt • Caroline Hurd ("Carrie" - Barnum's granddaughter) • Frederick Hurd • Helen B. Hurd • Julia Hurd (Barnum's granddaughter) • Samuel H. Hurd • Professor Hutchings (the "lightning calculator") • James L. Hutchinson

I
Earl of Ilchester • "Infant Esau" • Henry Irving • Washington Irving • Isabella II (Queen of Spain)

J
Andrew Jackson • Mattie Jackson • Dr. Jacques (abortionist) • James (the "White Negro") • Henry James • William James • John Jay • Mr. Jenkins (performer) • E. Fellows Jenkins • Augustus Jerome • Chauncey Jerome • Samuel Jerome • Morris K. Jesup • Andrew Johnson • J.M. Johnson • James D. Johnson • William Henry Johnson ("Zip") • Joignerey (strongman) • Judkins (sea captain) • Louis Jullien • Jumbo • Lewis June

K
Leopold Kahn • David Kalakaua (King of Hawaii) • Charles Kean • Ralph Keeler • Duchess of Kent (Victoria's mother) • Earl of Kilmorey • David Kimball • Moses Kimball • Imre Kiralfy • "Squire" Knapp • Alfred R. Knapp • Herr Knope (minstrel) • Oscar Kohn • Lajos Kossuth

L
Burt Lancaster • Edwin Landseer • Samuel P. Langley • Hervey Leach ("Hervio Nano") • Charles Godfrey Leland • Lewis B. Lent • Leopold I (King of the Belgians) • Frank Leslie • Leo Rich Lewis • Ludwig Lewisohn • Lillie (showman) • Abraham Lincoln • Mrs. Abraham Lincoln • Robert "Todd" Lincoln • Jenny Lind • Adolf F. Lindblad • Sophie Lindblad • R.W. Lindsay • "Little Egypt" (belly dancer) • Mary Ashton Livermore • Professor Livingston (phrenologist) • David Livingstone • Richard Adams Locke • A.L. Loomis • Louis-Philippe (King of France) • Louise (Queen of the Belgians, wife of Leopold I) • Sally Williams Lovell • Lovell family • Sampson Low • James Russell Lowell • Rudolphe Lucasie (and family) • Noah Ludlow • Charles P. Lyman • Levi Lyman • Francis Lynch • Carrie Lyon • John Lyon • Sarah Lyttelton (Baroness Lyttelton)

M
Joseph T. McCaddon • Wilson McDonald • Percy MacKaye • Steele MacKaye • R.G.S. McNeille • William Charles Macready • "Mlle. Fanny" (orangutan) • Johann Maelzel • Manton Marble • Max Maretzek • Othniel C. Marsh • William E. Marsh • John P. Marshall • Wilson Marshall • Maximo and Bartola ("Aztec Children") • G.H.C. Melody • Herman Melville • Felix Mendelssohn • Emily Mestayer • Anna M. Middlebrook • Joaquin Miller • Miss Mills ("Mary Darling") • Clark Mills • John Milton • Harriet P. Miner • William T. Minor • Lola Montez • John Moody • George P. Morris • Anna Cora Mowatt • Baron Munchausen • James Myers

N
Napoleon I • Napoleon III • Eugene Louis Napoleon ("Porn-Porn") • Addison Nathans • John J. Nathans • S.K.G. Nellis • Edward Newell ("Major") • William Newman ("Elephant Bill") • Luke Newton • William Niblo • Nicholas I (Emperor of Russia) • Edward T. Nichols • Laura Taylor Nichols (Barnum's aunt) • Thomas Low Nichols • John Nimmo • William H. Noble • Commodore Nutt (George Washington Morrison Nutt) • Maria Dodge Nutt • Mary Ann Nutt • Rodnia Nutt • Rodnia Nutt Jr.

O
John V. O'Brien ("Pogey") • Daniel O'Connell • George C.D. Odell • "Old Bet" (elephant) • "Old Neptune" (sea lion) • Francis W. Olmsted • Frederick Law Olmsted • Helen Olmsted • Samuel Orcutt • Lucien d'Alexandry d' Orengiani • Sellick Osborn

P
Albert Bigelow Paine • Charles H. Parks • William Patch • Charles Willson Peale • Rubens Peale • Peale family • Joe Pentland • George L. Perin • Matthew C. Perry • William ("Billy") Lyons Phelps • Mr. Phillips (inventor) • Mr. Pierce (lion trainer) • Franklin Pierce • Professor Pinte (Barnum's guide and translator in France) • Orville H. Platt • Edgar Allan Poe • James K. Polk • J.B. Pond • Horatio N. Powers • Isaac B. Prindle • Mr. Proler (Barnum's onetime partner) • Joseph Pulitzer • James M. Pullman

R
Rachel (Elisa Felix) • Ramses II • Arthur Rankin • Julius Starr Redfield • Whitelaw Reid • Frank W. Rennell • Helen B. Rennell (Barnum's granddaughter – née Hurd) • Henry Rennell ("P.T." - Barnum's great-grandson) • Mariana G. Van Renssalaer • Thomas D. Rice ("Jim Crow") • H.H. Richardson • Joseph Richardson • Captain Richelieu (in Siamese navy) • Ringling family • C.F. Ritchel • Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin • J.B. Roberts • Wyatt B. Roberts • Mme Rockwell ("petrologist") • David L. Rogers • Earl of Rosebery • Charles Rosenberg • Charley Ross • Baroness Rothschild • Alfred de Rothschild • Leopold de Rothschild • Rothschild family • Constance Rourke • Jean Jacques Rousseau

S
Augustus St Gaudens • George Augustus Sala • Salamander (the wonderful "fire horse") • George Sand • James Sandford • Henry Sanford • George "Lord" Sanger • John Sanger • Caroline Sargent • Henry W. Sargent • William P. Saunders • Ellis B. Schnable • Montgomery Schuyler • Matthew Scott • Samuel Scoville • John Scudder • Clinton Hallett Seeley ("Barnum") • Herbert Barnum Seeley • Jessie Seeley • Nathan Seeley • Seth Seelye • John Sefton • Michael Servetus • William H. Seward • Thomas H. Seymour • William Shakespeare • H.G. Sherman • William Tecumseh Sherman • David W. Sherwood • Molly Sherwood (Phineas Taylor's first wife) • "Siamese Twins" • Daniel B. Sickles • Sitting Bull (Indian chief) • Philo H. Skidmore • Charles A. Skinner • Cornelia Otis Skinner • Otis Skinner • Mr. Smith (editor) • Albert Smith • Avery Smith • Goldwin Smith • Le Grand Smith • Paul Smith • Sol Smith • Mr. Snelling (journalist) • E.A. Sothern • Clapp Spooner • Isaac Sprague • Edwin Stanton • Elizabeth Cady Stanton • James Staples • Frank Farnsworth Starr • Lewis Starr • Daniel H. Sterling • Elida Sterling • Julian H. Sterling • "Major" Stevens (dwarf) • William H. Stevenson • Elizabeth Stoddard • Richard Stoddard • Lucy Stone • Harriet Beecher Stowe • Charles Sherwood Stratton • Cynthia Stratton • Sherwood E. Stratton • George Templeton Strong • Sabra C. Sturgiss • John L. Sullivan • Anna Swan • Algernon C. Swinburne

T
Mr. Taylor (keeper of the "Happy Family") • Alanson Taylor (Barnum's uncle) • Bayard Taylor • Mrs. Bayard Taylor • George Taylor • J.K. Taylor • Louise Taylor • Oliver Taylor • Philip Taylor (father of "Phillip") • Philip Taylor (or "Phillip") • Phineas Taylor (Barnum's grandfather) • Sally Burr Taylor (Phineas Taylor's second wife) • Lord Alfred Tennyson • Theodore Terry • William Makepeace Thackeray • Theebau (King of Burma) • Abel C. Thomas • Mrs. Abel C. Thomas • Caroline Thompson • Curtis Thompson • David W. Thompson • Lydia Thompson • Marianna Thompson • P.T. Barnum Thompson (Barnum's grandson) • Henry David Thoreau • Mrs. Thorp (victim) • David Thorp • L. Ashton Thorpe • Tom Thumb ("General") • Mrs. Tom Thumb (Lavinia Warren née Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump) • Elizabeth R. Tilton • Theodore Tilton • "Tom Thumb" (dwarf elephant) • Toung Taloung (white elephant) • Russell T. Trail • "Tom Trouble" (pirate) • Aaron Turner • Mark Twain

V
William H. Vanderbilt • Angelo Venanzi • Mlle Victoria (aerialist) • Victoria (Princess Royal of England) • Victoria (Queen of England) • "Signor Vivalla" (olim "Signor Antonio")

W
Daniel Wakeman • Mary Wakeman • Sarah Wakeman • William C. Walker • Alfred Russel Wallace • Irving Wallace • F.J. Walton • Henry A. Ward • I. DeVer Warner • Joel E. Warner • Lavinia Warren • Minnie Warren • Augustine Washington • George Washington • Darius Webb • Benjamin Webster • Edward A. Webster • Hiram Weed • Gideon Welles • Duke of Wellington • George A. Wells • Francis Courtney Wemyss • M.R. Werner • DeWitt Clinton Wheeler • Walt Whitman • Elizabeth B. Whitney • Thomas Whittemore • John Greenleaf Whittier • Elisha Whittlesey • R.O. Wickware • Oscar Wilde • Frederick Wildman • William H. Wildman • Alexander Williams • Barney Williams • Celeste Williams • Edward P. Willis • John H. Willis • Nathaniel P. Willis • J.D. Willman • George Wilson • John Hall Wilton • John Wise • George Wombwell • George Wood • Victoria Claflin Woodhull • Chevalier Henry Wikoff

Y
Yellow Bear (Indian chief) • Brigham Young • Merritt F. Young

Z
Zazel (human canonball) • "Zip" (William Henry Johnson)