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abolitionist movement, xv, 97, 122–24, 128, 229, 247, 249
aborigines, 82
Adams, John, 177
Afong Moy “Chinese Lady,” 83
Agassiz, Louis, 177
Age of Discovery, 41, 82
Alexander, Sir James, 127–28
Allen, Harrison, 322
American Colonization Society (ACS), xxii
American Museum, 260–62, 263, 264, 267, 268, 270, 301
American Philosophical Society, 44
Anatomy Act (1832), 319–20
Anderson, Sherwood, 327, 346
Andrews, Thomas, 322
Andy Griffith Show, The, 189, 197, 327–47
Anglo-Burmese War (1824), 4
Anthony, Susan B., 177
Aristotle, 53
Arnold, Benedict, 149
Ashe, Samuel, 194
Astor, John Jacob, 177
Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice, 206, 215–16, 217
Ayudhya Revolution (1688), 9, 18
Bacon, Francis, 101
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 80, 81
Bangkok, twins’ travel to, 23–25, 26
Bank of the United States (BUS), 157–58
Barnum, P. T., 54, 256–67, 300–305
and American Museum, 260–62, 263, 264, 268, 301
and Chang and Eng, 137, 264–65, 275, 300, 302–4, 313
and hoaxes, 48, 73, 100, 253, 259, 265–67, 313
The Humbugs of the World, 258
and Tom Thumb, 40, 256, 261–62, 302
Bartholomew Fair, 81, 82
Baugus, Robert J., 198
Baugus, Samuel, 207
Beaumont, Gustave, 126, 132–33
Beecher, Henry Ward, 173
Beecher, Lyman, 142
Benton, Rev. J. A., 269–70
Berrisford, James, xviii
Bibb, William Wyatt, 164
Biddenden Maids, 20, 84
Bierce, Ambrose, 286
Biggers, Earl Derr, 155
Birkbeck, George, 77
Black Hawk, 133, 159–61
Black Hawk War (1832), 147
body-snatching, 319–20, 321
Bogdan, Robert, 54
Bolívar, Simón, 6
Bolton, George Buckley, 85, 86–87, 90
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 40, 74, 77, 167
Boone, Daniel, 147, 188, 190, 200
Boone, Rev. William J., 200
Booth, John Wilkes, 177, 188, 325
Borden, Lizzie, 177
Boston:
twins’ arrival in, 39–40, 44–45
twins’ debut in, 51–55
Bower, George, 195
Bowring, Sir John, The Kingdom and People of Siam, 11
Bradley, Dan B., 12
Brady, Mathew, 300
British Isles, twins’ tours to, 72–79, 80–87, 92–93, 99, 143, 302–5
Broadnax, William Henry, 128
Brodie, Sir Benjamin Collins, 77
Brooks, Joshua, 78–79
Brown, John, 177
Brown, Lydia Waters, 194–95
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 89
Buchanan, James, 287
Buffalo, New York, 131–33
Bullock, William, 77–78, 82
Bunker, Adelaide Yates, 301
after Chang’s death, 318, 320–21, 322–23, 325
children of, 237, 238, 284, 292
marriage of Chang and, 216–24, 232, 236
Bunker, Albert, 300, 309
Bunker, Catherine, 213–14, 222
Bunker, Chang and Eng, see Chang and Eng
Bunker, Christopher Wren, xxiv, 263–64, 288, 291–93, 318, 325
Bunker, James, 309
Bunker, Josephine, 253
Bunker, Katherine, 253, 264, 302–5, 309
Bunker, Montgomery, 265
Bunker, Nannie, 302–4, 309, 318
Bunker, Patrick, 249, 264, 265, 300
Bunker, Sarah Yates, 301, 316
after Eng’s death, 318, 320–21, 322–23, 325
children of, 237, 238, 285
marriage of Eng and, 216–24, 232, 236
Bunker, Stephen Decatur, xxiv, 293–94, 325
Bunker family, 298
and Aunt Grace, 236, 238, 239, 241, 298
reunion (2003), 235–38, 249–50
and slavery, 249–51
and tours, 253, 263–64, 275, 277–78, 302–5
and twins’ deaths, 320–23, 325
see also Chang and Eng, children and descendents of
Burke, William, 60–61, 319
Burney, Henry, 19, 27
Burney Mission (1826), 9, 26–27, 74
Cahill, Thaddeus, 276
Calhoun, John, 157
California:
gold rush in, 271, 277
twins’ tour in, 268–79
Calloway, James, 190
Capote, Truman, 119
Carlisle, Sir Anthony, 85
Carmer, Carl, 164, 167
Carmichael, Abner, 201, 204
Carnegie, Andrew, 177
Cash, W. J., 164
Céberet du Boullay, Claude, 11
Century (Thousand-Year) Eggs, 17–18
Chan, Charlie (fict.), 155, 328
Chang and Eng, 37, 52, 70
account book of, 95, 154–56, 161, 165, 190, 193, 198, 203, 213
aging of, 308–10, 311
arrival in U.S., 39–43, 45
autopsy of, 68, 182, 232, 249, 321–25
and Barnum, 137, 264–65, 275, 300, 302–4, 313
birth of, xxii, 6, 7
as chess players, xviii–xix, xx, xxii, xxiv, xxv, 310
children and descendents of, xxiii, xxiv, xxv, 235, 237, 238, 248, 249–50, 253, 262, 269, 284–85, 292, 301, 330, 336, 339
and Civil War, xxiv, 284–85, 288, 291–94, 296, 297–300
connecting cartilage of, xix, 5, 13–14, 45, 48–49, 68–69, 78, 83, 85, 322, 323–25
contract with Hunter and Coffin, 33–35, 33, 109, 130, 133–34
critics of, 56, 244
debut of, 51–55
disagreements of, 306–9
double wedding of, xxiii, xxv, 206, 220–24
early years of, 11, 13–14
earnings of, xxii–xxiv, 67, 162, 191, 284, 285, 297–99
events after death of, 317–25
and fame, 99, 157, 202, 270, 272
family background of, 8–9
final illness and death of, xxv–xxvi, 306, 308–9, 311, 313–16
final performances of, 193–94, 195, 309–10
as freak of nature, xxii, 44, 45, 56, 58, 73, 76, 100, 112, 115, 212, 214, 219, 236, 244, 245, 265, 346
gravestone of, 334, 334
homesickness of, 93, 109, 269–70
homestead of, 185, 193, 197–205, 216, 217, 238, 307
independence sought by, 130, 133–37, 139, 144–45
and Lynnfield Battle, 112–16, 179
married life of, 225–34, 248–49, 272
medical exams of, 46–50, 68–69, 76–79, 85–87, 129, 164–65, 172, 177, 180–81, 304–5, 319–20, 321–25
as merchants, 18, 26, 32, 140, 151, 203–4, 207
mother of (Nok), 6, 12–13, 17, 22, 32–33, 34, 312
names of, 8, 34, 214, 222–23
in North Carolina, xxii–xxiv, 185, 187–92, 195–96, 207, 221
as performers, 54, 55, 61, 83, 84, 198
and phrenology, 177, 178–83
possible separation of, 49, 69, 236, 263, 304, 315, 324
publicity about, 45–46, 51, 54–55, 57, 69, 75–76, 79, 101, 110, 158, 178, 213, 242, 262–63, 272, 300, 301
religious conjecture about, 55, 227–28
return to U.S., 94, 310
signatures of, 137
and slaves, see slavery
studies of, 91–92, 140
Ti-eye, father of, 6, 13, 16–17, 304
on tour, xxiv–xxv, 22, 32, 44, 54–56, 61–65, 66–68, 72–79, 81–87, 92–93, 109–10, 112, 125–27, 130, 141–42, 143, 146–50, 154–59, 162, 163–69, 177–78, 198, 252–53, 261–65, 268–79, 299–305, 309–10
U.S. citizenship of, 199–202, 211, 223
and women, 89–90, 205, 206–21, 249
Charles II, king of England, 80
Chase, Salmon Portland, xxi
Cherokee Nation, 245
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 97, 100
Chinaman, use of term, 271
Chinese Siamese history, 9–13
cholera, 15–17, 98, 304
Christie, E. P., 270
Chulkhurst, Mary and Eliza, 20
Cigrange, Jacob, xvii
circuit court judges, 153–54
Civil War, U.S., xviii, 283–96
Asian men serving in, 288–94
and Chang and Eng, xxiv, 284–85, 288, 291–94, 296, 297–300
deaths in, xv, 281, 283, 287
economic effects of, 285, 297–300
psychological effects of, xv, 286–87, 297
secession as prelude to, 147, 157, 277, 278–79, 283
twins as metaphor for, 278–79
Clanny, William Reid, 77
Clay, Henry, 147, 158, 284
Clemens, Samuel, see Twain, Mark
Cleveland, Benjamin, 187
Coffin, Abel:
and Chang and Eng, xxii, 32–35, 39–40, 44, 45, 49, 54, 72–73, 75, 76, 91, 93, 109, 123, 129, 133–36, 143–44, 262
death of, 145
and Hunter, 30–35
travels of, 98–99, 133, 135–36
twins’ resentment of, 73, 99, 130, 143
Coffin, Susan, 73, 91, 93, 98–99, 108, 117, 125, 127, 130, 133–36, 139, 142–45
Cohen, Burton, The Wedding of the Siamese Twins, 218, 219, 235
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 71
Combe, George, 171, 173, 174
conjoined twins, 20–21, 49
autopsies of, 55
possible separation of, 69
Conscription Act (1862), 285
Converse, Frank B., 273
Cook, Capt. James, 77, 82
Cooper, Sir Astley, 77, 78, 319–20
Cooper, James Fenimore, 194
Crabb, George, Dictionary of General Knowledge, 91–92, 312
Crawford, Martin, 237
Crawfurd, John, 7, 9, 16, 18, 19, 181
Crockett, Davy, 147
Cunard Steamship Company, xix–xx
curiosities, use of term, 40–41, 48, 265
Curtis, John Harrison, 77
Cushing, William, 153
Czolgosz, Leon, 177
Dana, Richard Henry Jr., 63
Darwin, Charles, 53, 127
Davis, John D., 173
Davis, William, 135
Demopolis, Alabama, 167–69
de Quincey, Thomas, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 71–72, 82, 87–88, 237
Deslondes, Charles, 6
Desnouettes, Charles Lefebvre, 167, 168
Dickens, Charles, xvi, 41, 45, 59–60, 66, 74, 75, 77, 125–26
Diderot, Denis, Encyclopedia, 91, 92
Dobson, Bettie, 296
Dolan, J. R., 149
Doty, Edmund, 253, 262, 263
Douglass, Frederick, xix–xx, 177
Dreger, Alice, 229, 230, 231
Dugger, Shepherd M., 189–90, 208–9, 214
DuPont, George, 290
Dwight, Timothy, 149–50
Early, Jubal, 294
East, Benny, 339
Edison, Thomas A., 177
Edwards, Jonathan, 151
Edward VII, king of England, 265
Ellison, Ralph, 274
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 171, 177, 271
Emmett, Dan, 43
Erie Canal, opening of, 131, 140
Ethridge, Brenda, 236, 238
Faust, Drew Gilpin, 286
Fiedler, Leslie, 11, 41, 53, 87, 332
Fifteenth Amendment (1870), 200
Finlayson, George, 181–82
Finney, Charles, 139, 140–41, 142, 144
Floyd, John, 121
Forrest, Emmett, 337
Foucault, Michel, 48
Fowler, Orson, 226, 300
Fowler brothers, 173–74, 176–82
Fox, Charley, 273
Franco-Prussian War, 309, 310
Frankenberry, Frank, 295
Franklin, Benjamin, 258
“freaks”:
born vs. “gaffed,” 48
conjoined twins, 20–21, 49, 73
and curiosities, 40–41, 48, 265, 312–13
hoaxes, 48, 253–56, 259
and monsters, 53–54, 76, 80–81, 90, 94, 325
mummy exhibition, 47
Ourang Outangs, 111–12, 161
and phrenology, 174
racial, 82–88, 112–16
Southern writers on, 163, 168–69, 229
freak shows, xiii, 43–45, 46, 48, 49, 61, 69, 78, 80–81, 82, 84–85, 259, 272
Freud, Sigmund, 172, 233
Fugitive Slave Law (1850), 284
Gall, Franz Joseph, 170, 172, 176, 258
Gambill, Martin, 195
Gambill, Nancy, 203
Garfield, James A., 325
Garrison, William Lloyd, 97, 116, 122–24, 206, 229
Gates, Grace [Aunt], 236, 238, 239, 241, 298
Gay, Peter, 227
George III, king of England, 77
George IV, king of England, 74
Germany, twins’ tour in, 309–10
Gerry, Elbridge, 112–14
Gerry, Elbridge Thomas, 113–14
Gibson, Josh, 234, 336
Gilded Age, xvi
Gist, Christopher, 188
Gould, Hannah F., “To the Siamese Twins,” 116
Graham, Sylvester, 226
Grant, Ulysses S., 294, 300
Graves, Judge Jesse Franklin, 17, 207, 209, 216–18, 239–40, 241, 284, 308, 330
Gray, Henry, Gray’s Anatomy, 77
Gray, Thomas, 119
Great Awakenings, 60, 139, 140–41, 151, 178, 227, 228
Great Moon Hoax, 254–55
Greeley, Horace, 177
Griffith, Andy, 331
Andy Griffith Show, 189, 197, 327–47
memorabilia of, 337
Grosz, Elizabeth, 87
Gutzlaff, Karl, 11–12, 28–30, 31
Gwyn, James, 201, 203
Hale, James:
and Coffins, 98, 108, 125, 145
publicity arranged by, 54–55, 110
and tours, 73, 75, 92–93, 108–10, 117, 177
as twins’ manager, 54, 98, 133, 177
and women, 214, 236
Halford, Henry, 77
Haller, John S. and Robin M., 225
Harley, Robert, 21
Harris, Charles:
and Coffin correspondence, 126–27, 133, 135–36
marriage of, 198, 220
and retirement, 193, 198–99
and tours, 126–27, 142, 190
and twins’ accounts, 154, 166, 190, 203
and twins’ independence, 133, 135–36, 144
as twins’ manager, 125, 129, 139, 166
and twins’ wedding, 220–21
Harris, Fanny, 198, 207, 213
Harrison, William Henry, 7
Harte, Bret, 272
Hattee (servant), 21
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 150, 152, 177
Haynes, Milton, 233
Hearst, William Randolph, 301
Hefner, Hugh, 301
Helper, Hinton Rowan, 246–49, 271, 272
Hemings, Sally, 236, 249, 250
Henry I, king of England, 81
hermaphrodite, 87
Herschel, Sir John, 254
Heth, Joice, 73, 100, 259
Hilton, Violet and Daisy, 232–33
hoaxes, 48, 253–56, 259
Hobbes, Thomas, 40
Hodes, Martha, 211
Hollingsworth, Joseph, 315, 318, 321–22
Hollingsworth, William, 315, 321
Hone, Philip, 58, 59, 61, 100–101, 172, 262
Honeywell, Martha Ann, 43–44
hoodlum, origin of the term, 115
Houston, John, 200
Hugo, Victor, 41
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 89, 90, 94
human being, definition of, 87
Hume, David, 40
Hungarian Sisters, 21, 49, 311
Hunter, David, 291
Hunter, Kay, Duet for a Lifetime, 308
Hunter, Robert, 3–5, 19
and Chang and Eng, xxii, 20, 21–22, 26, 31–35, 39, 44, 45, 72–73, 76, 93, 129, 144, 205
and Coffin, 30–35
ownership of twins sold by, 98
in Siam, 4–5, 27–28, 29, 29, 30
Huntington, Collis Potter, 149
individual, use of term, 87
Industrial Revolution, 74
Ingalls, H. P., 300, 302
Irving, Washington, 150, 253
Jackson, Andrew, 41–42, 43, 147, 157–58, 159, 172, 177, 289
Jackson, Michael, 301
Jackson, Thomas J. “Stonewall,” 294
Jackson, William, 265
Jacksonian democracy, 253
Jefferson, Thomas, xxi, xxiii, 177, 194, 236, 249, 250
Johnson, Ebenezer, 132
Johnson, Hilary R. W., xxii
Jones, Tanya, 330
Keese, William Linn, 306–7
Keller, Helen, 177
Kellogg, John Harvey, 226
Keogh, Myles, 295
Khan, Genghis, 98
Kirkham, Samuel, 179
Know-Nothing party, 284
Larkin, Jack, 147
Layley, John, 91, 92
Lee, Robert E., 285, 300
Lee, Robert G., 247, 272
Leidy, Joseph, 322
Leonowens, Anna, 13, 27, 287
Levi, Primo, 238
Liberia, xxii, xxv, 310–11, 312
Lincoln, Abraham, 43, 133, 177, 264, 300
gift from king of Siam to, 287–88
on judicial circuit, 154
and secession/Civil War, 157, 278–79, 283, 284, 288
Linnaeus, Carl, 53
Locock, Sir Charles, 77
London, Henry Armand, 300
London Missionary Society, 28–29
Ludd, Ned; Luddites, 6
Luke, Keye, 338–39
Lynn, Betty, 330
Lynnfield Battle, 112–16, 179
Lytton, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron, 101, 102–7
The Siamese Twins, 103–6
Mackey, Nathaniel, 181
Madison, James, 113
Malloch, D. E., 9
Mallos, Jean-Baptiste Pallegoix, bishop of, 11
Maltacle, Modeste “Canadian Giant,” 61
manifest destiny, 171–72
Mao Zedong, 117
Marsh, Peter, 198
Marshall, John, 97
Masur, Louis, 128, 140
Mayberry (fict.), 327–47
Mayberry Campground, 339–47, 339
McCausland, John, 291, 292
McCunn, Ruthanne Lum, 289
medicine shows, 46, 47–48, 68–69, 78, 111, 172
Meklong, Siam, 3–5, 6, 11
Melville, Herman, 99, 106, 258, 265, 274
Billy Budd, 63
The Confidence-Man, 62–63, 174
Moby-Dick, 41, 62, 151, 176, 237
Typee, 83
Miles, Melvin, 240
Minor, David, 60, 61
minstrel shows, 43, 270–77
Mitchell, Elisha, 191, 193, 194, 237
Mongkut, king of Siam, 13, 287–88
Mongkut, Prince (Siam), 4
Monroe, James, 311
Moore, Thomas, 156
Morley, Henry, 80, 81
Moss, Henry, 43–44
Mount Airy, North Carolina, 238, 244, 252, 327, 331
Mütter Museum, Philadelphia, 68, 323–25
Nabokov, Vladimir, 40
Naturalization Act (1790), 200
Neale, Frederick Arthur, 27–28
Neill, John, 322
New York City, twins’ tours in, 58–60, 61–65, 261, 262–63
Nok (mother), 6, 12–13, 17, 22, 32–33, 34, 312
Noyes, John Humphrey, 227–28
Nye, Edgar “Bill,” 275
O’Connor, Flannery, 163, 169, 229
Ohly, Herman and Honersia, xviii
Opium Wars, 30, 72
Orser, Joseph, 129, 190, 198, 201, 229
Ourang Outangs, 111–12, 161
Palmyra, xv, xvi–xxv, xxiii, 310, 313
Pancoast, William H., 8, 231–32, 321, 322, 323, 324
Peale, Charles Willson, 67, 72–73, 153, 177
Peale, Rubens, 177
Peel, Sir Robert, 74
Penn, William, 66
Pérez Firmat, Gustavo, 337, 346
Perry, Thomas, 296
Phaulkon, Constant (Yeraki), 18–19
Philadelphia, twins’ tours in, 66–69, 109–10
Phra Nangklao, 4
Phraya Tak (Taksin), 10
phrenology, 170–83, 226, 258, 322
Physick, Philip Syng, 68, 69, 172
Poe, Edgar Allan, 101, 176, 196, 255
Pope, Alexander, 21, 311
Posey, Sidney C., 166, 238
Post, Marjorie Merriweather, 301
Prang, Louis, xvii–xviii
Prang, Rosa, xvii–xviii
Prather, Thomas F., 239, 242
Prendergast, George, 193, 198
Ptolemy I, 319
race:
and citizenship, 211
and freaks, 82–88, 115–16
and harassment, 112–16
“honorary whites,” 211–12
and immigration, 247, 271, 277
and licensing fees, 128–29
and minstrel shows, 270–77
and miscegenation fears, xxiii, 211, 220, 221, 248–49
and phrenology, 181–82
and sex, 237–38, 244, 249
and slaves, see slavery
U.S. hierarchy of, 146
Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford, 15
Rama I, king of Siam, 10
Rama II, king of Siam, 4, 7, 15–16, 18
Rama III, king of Siam, 4, 22–25, 26, 27, 31–32
Randolph, Thomas Jefferson, 127
Raoul, Nicolas, 167
Reconstruction, xv, 309
Revolutionary War, U.S., 42, 286
Reynolds, David S., 157
Rice, Thomas D., 43
Richardson, Jane, 238
Riley, James, 275
Roach, Mary, Stiff, 317–18, 319, 320
Roane, William Henry, 127
Roberts, Edmund, 12, 13, 19, 27
Robinson, Sophonia “Sophia,” 89–90
Rochester, twins’ tour in, 140–42
Roebling, Johann August, 127
Rogers, Will, 268
Roget, Peter Mark, 85–86
Roye, Edward James, xxi, xxii, xxv, 310–12, 313
Ruschenberger, William, 27, 181–83, 322
Rutherford, John, 82–83
Sachem, 35, 39–40, 39, 45
Scottish Brothers, 20, 84
Scovill, Caroline, 213
Scriblerus Club, 21
Sequoyah (Cherokee), 188
Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein, 53
Sherburne, Samuel, 143
Sherman, William Tecumseh, xv, 149, 290, 294
Shields, J. C., 299
Siam:
cholera in, 15–17
lunar eclipse (1829) in, 32, 98
Protestant missionaries in, 28–29, 31
Siamese Connection, The (documentary), 234, 336
Siamese Twins:
as Civil War metaphor, 278–79
as freaks, 20–21, 49, 73
and marriage, 216, 218, 232–33
and sex, 232–34, 237
as slaves, 129–30
uses of the term, 65, 157, 265
see also Chang and Eng
Simpson, Sir James, 305
Sink, Alex, 336
Sin Say, 200
Skinner, G. William, 13
Slack, David B., 56
Slatt, John H., xvii
slavery:
and abolition, see abolitionist movement
and Amistad, 193
and black codes, 128
and Bunker family, 249–51
Chang and Eng as slave owners and traders, xxiii, xxiv, 204, 207, 236, 238–46, 239, 240, 249, 284, 297–98, 312
and Cherokee Nation, 245
and emancipation, 127, 128
and free blacks, xxi, 128
and Fugitive Slave Law, 284
and Jefferson/Hemings story, 236, 249, 250
and Middle Passage, xv
uprisings, 6, 97–98, 117–24, 127–28, 193, 241
Slouka, Mark, 106
Snyder Act (1924), 200
solar eclipse, 97, 98, 118
Sparks, Rev. Colby, 219, 221
Speakman, Townsend, 68
Spicer, Hardin, 203
Sprague, Timothy, 47
Spurzheim, Johann Gaspar, 171, 172–73, 176
Stewart, Susan, 72
Stoneman, George, 294–96, 328
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 146, 173
Strauss, Darin, 106
Chang and Eng, 231
Supreme Court, U.S., 97, 99–100
Sutter, John, 271
Swift, Jonathan, 21
Gulliver’s Travels, 81
Sylvanus, Thomas (Ah Yee Way), 289–90
Tan Puying Sap, 19
Tarkington, Rockne, 338
Tchen, John, 200
Tecumseh, Chief, 7
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, “Ulysses,” 252
Terwiel, B. J., 16
Testerman, Morgan, 285
Thomas, Leigh, 77
Thoreau, Henry David, xvi
Thumb, “General” Tom, 40, 256, 261–62, 302
Tieu (Tian Cheng), 33, 34, 39, 73, 93
Ti-eye, 6, 13, 16–17, 304
Tocci, Giovanni and Giacomo, 233
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 42–43, 58, 66, 126, 132, 134, 147, 148
Toll, Robert C., 270
Tomlin, Jacob, 14, 28–29, 31
Tomney, John, 291
Trail of Tears, 97, 147
Traphill, 185, 197–205, 216, 221, 225, 238
Travis, Joseph, 118
tricksters, 265–67
Trollope, Fanny, 42, 66
Trump, Donald, 301
Turner, Nat, 97–98, 117–20, 125, 127–28, 130, 133, 241
Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens), xvi, 41, 106, 174, 233, 273–77, 308, 311, 315–16
Van Buren, Martin, 157, 170, 195–96
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 60, 177
Vann, James, 245
Verne, Jules, 255
Vico, Giambattista, 5, 317
Victorian Age, 225–28
Wales, Albert Edward, prince of, 265, 267
Wallace, Irving and Amy, The Two, 8, 190, 230–31, 296, 308
War of 1812, 131, 286, 289
Warren, John Collins, 46–50, 53, 54, 68, 69, 72, 78, 129, 172, 320
Washington, George, 43, 73, 110, 149, 188, 259
Watson, William, xvi
Wellar, Captain, 30
Wells, H. G., 255
Whitefield, George, 151
White Plains Baptist Church, 334–35, 335
Whitman, Walt, 174–76, 300
Wilkes, John, 188
Wilkesboro, North Carolina, 187–93, 333
Williams, John, 290–91
Willson, Meredith, The Music Man, 254
Wong Kong Chai, 200
Wordsworth, William, 81
Wright, Richardson, 149, 153
Wu, Cynthia, 236
Yamashita, Karen, 234
Yankee peddlers, 148–51, 265–67
Yates, Adelaide, 207–12
marriage of Chang and, see Bunker, Adelaide Yates
Yates, David, 207, 212, 218, 219–21, 238
Yates, Giles Fonda, 178–80
Yates, Nancy, 218–19, 220
Yates, Sarah, 207–12
marriage of Eng and, see Bunker, Sarah Yates
Zheng He, 9
Zhou Daguan, 9
Zimmerman, Simon Bolivar, 299–300
“Zip, the Monkey Man,” 265