Becoming Tom Thumb [electronic resource] : Charles Stratton, P. T. Barnum, and the dawn of American celebrity / Eric D. Lehman.
Material type: TextSeries: The driftless Connecticut seriesPublication details: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.)ISBN:- 9780819573322
- 791.092 B 23
- PN2287.T475 L45 2013
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: playing The palace -- The boy from Bridgeport -- At the American Museum -- Prince Charles the First -- Buttons, bullfights, and balloons -- Hop o' my thumb -- Heart of a child -- On the New York stage -- The measure of a man -- The wedding of the year -- The long and short of it -- A very strange honeymoon -- Tom Thumb's America -- Around the world -- At the helm -- A marriage and two funerals -- The great fire -- At Mountain Grove.
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