Struggles amd Triumphs: or, Forty Years' Recollections of P.T. Barnum
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Barnum Phineas Taylor. Struggles amd Triumphs: or, Forty Years' Recollections of P.T. Barnum
CARD INTRODUCTORY
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. EARLY LIFE
CHAPTER II. INCIDENTS AND ANECDOTES
CHAPTER III. IN BUSINESS FOR MYSELF
CHAPTER IV. STRUGGLES FOR A LIVELIHOOD
CHAPTER V. MY START AS A SHOWMAN
CHAPTER VI. MY FIRST TRAVELLING COMPANY
CHAPTER VII. AT THE FOOT OF THE LADDER
CHAPTER VIII. THE AMERICAN MUSEUM
CHAPTER IX. THE ROAD TO RICHES
CHAPTER X. ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL SPECULATION
CHAPTER XI. GENERAL TOM THUMB IN ENGLAND
CHAPTER XII. IN FRANCE
CHAPTER XIII. IN BELGIUM
CHAPTER XIV. IN ENGLAND AGAIN
CHAPTER XV. RETURN TO AMERICA
CHAPTER XVI. AT HOME
CHAPTER XVII. THE JENNY LIND ENTERPRISE
CHAPTER XVIII. THE NIGHTINGALE IN NEW YORK
CHAPTER XIX. SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER XX. INCIDENTS OF THE TOUR
CHAPTER XXI. JENNY LIND
CHAPTER XXII. CLOSE OF THE CAMPAIGN
CHAPTER XXIII. OTHER ENTERPRISES
CHAPTER XXIV. WORK AND PLAY
CHAPTER XXV. THE JEROME CLOCK COMPANY ENTANGLEMENT
CHAPTER XXVI. CLOUDS AND SUNSHINE
CHAPTER XXVII. REST, BUT NOT RUST
CHAPTER XXVIII. ABROAD AGAIN
CHAPTER XXIX. IN GERMANY
CHAPTER XXX. IN HOLLAND
CHAPTER XXXI. THE ART OF MONEY GETTING
CHAPTER XXXII. AN ENTERPRISING ENGLISHMAN
CHAPTER XXXIII. RICHARD’S HIMSELF AGAIN
CHAPTER XXXIV. MENAGERIE AND MUSEUM MEMORANDA
CHAPTER XXXV. EAST BRIDGEPORT
CHAPTER XXXVI. MORE ABOUT THE MUSEUM
CHAPTER XXXVII. MR. AND MRS. GENERAL TOM THUMB
CHAPTER XXXVIII. POLITICAL AND PERSONAL
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE AMERICAN MUSEUM IN RUINS
CHAPTER XL. MY WAR ON THE RAILROADS
CHAPTER XLI. BENNETT AND THE HERALD
CHAPTER XLII. PUBLIC LECTURING
CHAPTER XLIII. THE NEW MUSEUM
CHAPTER XLIV. CURIOUS COINCIDENCES. – NUMBER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER XLV. A STORY-CHAPTER
CHAPTER XLVI. SEA-SIDE PARK
CHAPTER XLVII. WALDEMERE
APPENDIX. REST ONLY FOUND IN ACTION
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX II
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THIS book is my Recollections of Forty Busy Years. Few men in civil life have had a career more crowded with incident, enterprise, and various intercourse with the world than mine. With the alternations of success and defeat, extensive travel in this and foreign lands; a large acquaintance with the humble and honored; having held the preëminent place among all who have sought to furnish healthful entertainment to the American people, and, therefore, having had opportunities for garnering an ample storehouse of incident and anecdote, while, at the same time, needing a sagacity, energy, foresight and fortitude rarely required or exhibited in financial affairs, my struggles and experiences (it is not altogether vanity in me to think) can not be without interest to my fellow countrymen.
Various leading publishers have solicited me to place at their disposal my Recollections of what I have been, and seen, and done. These proposals, together with the partiality of friends and kindred, have constrained me, now that I have retired from all active participation in business, to put in a permanent form what, it seems to me, may be instructive, entertaining and profitable.
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Mr. Dibble bolted through the door without another word and made directly for our store. “You young scamp!” said he as he entered; “what did you mean by sending me over there to buy Russia?”
“I did not send you to buy Rushia; I supposed you were either a bachelor or widower and wanted to marry Rushia,” I replied, with a serious countenance.
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