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243 Index  abolition, 34, 100–102, 105 American Museum (P.T. Barnum’s), xiv, xvi, 15, 18, 20–23, 29, 33, 35, 40, 52, 67, 70, 73–74, 78, 80, 88– 89, 93, 99–101, 109, 112, 113, 122, 123, 128, 141–42, 149, 185 Barnum, Caroline, 42, 69, 79–80, 83, 85–86 Barnum, Charity, 13, 42, 63–64, 74, 83–84 Barnum, Philo, 15, 18, 71 Barnum, Phineas Taylor (P.T.), 1–8, 13, 17, 42, 116, 121–25, 133, 156, 207–8; advertising methods, ix, xi, 1, 2, 7–8, 18–19, 25, 29, 35, 38–39, 44, 53, 93–94, 122, 140, 198; bankruptcy of, 103–4, 110; as businessman, 21–22, 74, 91– 92, 93, 103, 110, 149–51, 195–96, 198–99; conflicts with Sherwood and Cynthia Stratton, 40–42, 46–47, 53–54, 57–59, 63–64, 93, 96; contracts with Strattons, 16, 25, 42, 106, 114, 123, 154, 156–57, 177–78, 200; humbugs, xix, 13–14, 145, 192; Iranistan, 52, 79; as manager , 2, 7, 13–14, 15–16, 22–23, 25, 27, 28, 29, 33, 34, 39–40, 43, 46, 51–53, 54–56, 60, 61, 64–65, 67, 70–71, 78, 79, 80, 88, 95, 99, 102, 104–5, 108, 112–14, 120, 157, 185; as performer, xiii, 38, 109–10; politics, 34, 100–102, 111–12, 135, 175, 179; relationship with Charles Stratton; xiii, 15, 31–33, 49–51, 59, 64, 69, 75, 77, 81, 83–85, 88, 104, 121, 127, 137, 141–42, 157, 177–78, 181, 187–88, 192 Billy the Kid (William Bonney), xii, 195 Bleeker, Julia, 141, 158, 162, 190, 201, 203–4 Bleeker, Sylvester, 141, 143, 145, 153, 157–62, 165, 166, 168, 171, 176, 177, 179, 181, 190, 194, 201, 203, 206, 208 Booth, Edwin, 96, 127 Booth, John Wilkes, 139 Brady, Matthew, 89, 145 Bridgeport, Connecticut, xii, 10–11, 13–15, 17, 39, 46, 64, 71, 74–76, 79, 83, 85, 93, 95, 98, 103, 110–14, 116, 120–22, 138, 142, 149–51, 177, 180, 199, 208–9 Brooklyn Yacht Club, 181–84 Buffalo Bill Cody, ix, xii, xiv, xv, 164, 171, 196 Catlin, George, 56–57, 196 celebrity, ix–xv, xviii, 9, 39, 44, 71, 74, 81, 84, 101, 109–10, 112, 117, 135, 147, 164, 170, 178–79, 196; celebrity gossip, 67, 87–88, 184, 195, 206–7; celebrity parents, 57, 92, 99; celebrity weddings, 124, 128; Charles Stratton’s views of, 17, 85, 89, 102, 131, 139; Lavinia Warren’s views of, 139, 140, 144, 168, 179, 199 Circus, xiii–xiv, 14, 94, 113–14, 149, 162, 196–98; Great Asiatic Caravan , Museum, and Menagerie, 93–94, 96, 198; The Greatest Show on Earth, ix, 151, 198–200 244 i n d e x Civil War, 33–34, 78, 102, 111, 117, 120, 123, 133, 138–39, 142, 143, 149, 151, 152, 153, 198 comedy, xv, xviii, 6, 7, 22, 31, 37–38, 44, 50, 61, 62, 79, 84, 96, 106, 109, 113, 166, 195; Yankee comedy, 37–38 Commodore Nutt. See Nutt, George Cooper, James Fenimore, ix, xii, 42, 56 Dickens, Charles, xi, 17–18, 60–61, 71, 98 Douglas, Stephen, 117, 120, 132 Douglass, Frederick, 100, 101, 136 Dred, 99–102, 104–5, 141 Duke of Wellington, 6–7, 43, 44 dwarfs. See little people Edward, Prince of Wales (Bertie), xvi, 5–6, 145 Egyptian Hall, 2, 6–7, 40, 57, 60–61, 68 Elssler, Fanny, 67 Everett, Edward, 2, 4–6, 9, 28 Fejee Mermaid, 14, 34, 35, 109 Forrest, Edwin, xii, 90–91 General Tom Thumb. See Stratton, Charles Goshen, Ruth, 25, 185, 193–94 Grant, Ulysses S., xiii, 143, 144, 164 Great Asiatic Caravan, Museum, and Menagerie, 93–94, 96, 198 Greatest Show on Earth, the, ix, 151, 198–200 Greenwood, Grace (Sara Jane Lippincott), 74, 135–37 Hartford Lunatic Asylum, 96–98 Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 60 Heth, Joice, 13–14, 35 Higby, William, 116, 151, 177, 181, 208 high-­ low cultural divide, xv–xvii, 129–30 Hitchcock, Fordyce, 29, 40, 53, 70, 112, 124 Hone, Philip (mayor of New York), 23, 73 Hop o’ My Thumb (play), 61–63, 89, 95, 113 Howard, Cordelia, xii, 99, 104–5 Isabella II, Queen, 54–55 James, Henry, 92 Kimball, Moses, 7, 14, 29, 40, 64, 93, 109 Lincoln, Abraham, 89, 111, 132–37, 139 Lincoln, Mary Todd, 127, 133–35 Lind, Jenny, xi, xvi, 71, 94–95, 103, 147, 149 little people (dwarfs...

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