Summary of the hoax, with on-line version of Mark Twain’s Ghost Story based on the Cardiff Giant
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Brief summary of the hoax on the Iowa History web page.
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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.
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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
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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.
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