Phineas Taylor Barnum, better known as P.T. Barnum, was one of the original sensationalists. Best remembered for founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus, by his own admission, Barnum was first and ...

Fêted by crowned heads, Queen Victoria included, the tour would bring both Barnum and Stratton international fame and fortune. Phineas Taylor Barnum was born in July 1810 in the small American ...

"There's a sucker born every minute," or so said Phineas Taylor Barnum, the greatest American huckster who ever lived. He honed his flimflam skills to such astonishing heights that he eventually ...

Orphaned, penniless, but ambitious and with a mind crammed with imagination and fresh ideas, the American entertainer, Phineas Taylor Barnum, will always be remembered as the man with the gift to ...

Some milestones in the history of the circus: 1841 — Phineas Taylor Barnum buys Scudder’s American Museum in New York City and renames it Barnum’s American Museum, which was something of a ...

T. Barnum. Or, to give him his full name, Phineas Taylor Barnum. Barnum has been called many things. For example, 'The 19th century impresario who found fame by exploiting circus 'freaks'.' ...

Orphaned, penniless, but ambitious and with a mind crammed with imagination and fresh ideas, the American entertainer, Phineas Taylor Barnum, will always be remembered as the man with the gift to ...

ON a cold February day in 1844, a small group of travellers disembarked their ship at the port of Liverpool. There was no welcoming party; no ...