Chapter Three

The Goliath of New York: The Cardiff Giant

 

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Stone Face


Summary of the hoax, with on-line version of Mark Twain’s Ghost Story based on the Cardiff Giant

http://www.cardiffgiant.com/cardiff.shtml


Brief summary of the hoax on the Iowa History web page.

http://www.gazetteonline.com/history/gen001.htm


Roadside America focuses on the out-of-the-ordinary tourist attractions in the U.S. This page presents their take on the Cardiff Giant, with a link to a photograph of P.T. Barnum’s fake, housed at Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum in Michigan.

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/NYCOOgiant.html


Chapter from a nineteenth-century autobiography (Andrew White) with a detailed discussion of the Cardiff Giant. It is fascinating to see the Giant placed in direct historical context

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/cardiff.htm


Link to a Scott Tribble's Bachelor of Art's Honor's thesis (Harvard University) devoted to a discussion of the Cardiff Giant hoax. Lots of detail and very well-researched.

http://www.oursquare.com/members/stribble/academic_index.html


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