Struggles and Triumphs or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum

Date: [unknown] to 1883
Location: Connecticut, United States
Surname/tag: Barnum

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Contents 1 Struggles and Triumphs or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum 1.1 Available online at these locations: 1.2 Table of Contents (1872) 1.3 List of Illustrations (1872) 1.4 Citation Formats

Struggles and Triumphs or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum

A.K.A. "The Life of P.T. Barnum"

• by Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891)
• published 1855-1883
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Available online at these locations:

• (1855) "The Life of P.T. Barnum", 372 pages
• Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 47 Ludgate Hill, London, 1855

• https://books.google.com/books?id=YVA6AAAAcAAJ

• (1869) Hartford : J.B. Burr & Co, 1869, 780 pages

• https://archive.org/details/strugglestriumph00barn_0
• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008966272

• (1870) Hartford : J.B. Burr & Co., 1870, 856 pages

• https://archive.org/details/cu31924029936618
• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100771829

• (1871) American News Co., New York, 1871, 856 pages
• Author's Edition. Biography complete to April 1871

• http://books.google.com/books?id=0QR6hjRMOeQC
• https://archive.org/details/strugglesandtri03barngoog
• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005683814

• (1872) Warren, Johnson & Co., Buffalo, NY, 880 pages

• https://archive.org/details/strugglestriumph00barnrich
• https://archive.org/details/strugglestriumph00barn
• http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50115

• (1873) Author's edition. Buffalo, New York : Warren, Johnson & Co., 850 pages
• Revised, Enlarged, Newly Illustrated, and Written up to Feruary, 1873, by the Author

• https://books.google.com/books?id=iKA8AAAAYAAJ
• https://archive.org/details/strugglestriumph00barn_2
• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100107741
• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100550981
• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001881829

• (1875) The Courier Co., Buffalo, NY, 875 pages

• http://books.google.com/books?id=6xILAAAAIAAJ
• https://archive.org/details/strugglesandtri00barngoog
• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100327899

• (1879) The Courier Co., Buffalo, NY, 324 pages

• https://archive.org/details/strugglestriumph1879barn

• (1880) The Courier Co., Buffalo, NY, 327 pages

• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100550767

• (1882) The Courier Co., Buffalo, NY, 785 pages
• Revised, Enlarged, Newly Illustrated, and Written up to Dec. 1881, by the Author

• http://books.google.com/books?id=r3IXAAAAYAAJ
• https://archive.org/details/strugglesandtri06barngoog
• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100327901

• (1882) Ward, Lock and Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C., London, 367 pages

• https://books.google.com/books?id=xVwBAAAAQAAJ

• (1883) The Courier Co., Buffalo, NY, 338 pages

• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100533062

Table of Contents (1872)

• 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 Traveling 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

List of Illustrations (1872)

• Portrait of P. T. Barnum, Page Frontispiece
• My Property and My Tenant, Page 32
• My Delivery From Imprisonment, Page 65
• Barnum On A Rail, Page 84
• The Coward and The “Brave,” 100
• Victory Over Vestrymen, Page 138
• Squalls and Breezes, Page 146
• Battle of The Giants, Page 162
• The Great Duke and The Little General, Page 184
• Royal Honors to The General, Page 192
• Manure Cart Express, Page 217
• Put Me In Irons, Page 243
• Iranistan, Page 263
• Welcome to Jenny Lind, Page 288
• J. G. Bennett and His Monkey, Page 327
• Elephantine Agriculture, Page 358
• Mountain Grove Cemetery, Page 369
• The “Customs” of The Country, Page 432
• “The Long and Short of It,” 510
• Grizzly Adams and His Family, Page 530
• The Prince In The Museum, Page 543
• East Bridgeport, Page 549
• Capturing White Whales, Page 562
• Trouble In A Turkish Harem, Page 580
• Marriage In Miniature, Page 603
• Alarm At Lindencroft, Page 616
• The Great Unknown, Page 680
• After The Fire, Page 702
• Barnum Five Seconds Ahead, Page 705
• A Grotesque Fire Company, Page 720
• Half-Shaved, Page 726
• Sea Side Park, Page 758
• Waldemere, Page 768

Citation Formats

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