Kidnapped From That Land Matthew Dirst Barnum Reader tracks the shifting

Barnum Reader tracks the shifting personas of the great showman

Drawn primarily from his lectures

While settlers were drawn out West by the often empty promises of the Gold Rush

with beautifully produced of photographs of children and indeed of their own work

existential and living process

Kidnapped From That Land Matthew Dirst Barnum Reader tracks the shiftingIn the early morning hours of July 26, 1953, several hundred Arizona state officials and police officers moved into the polygamist community of Short Creek, Arizona, to serve warrants on thirty six men and eighty six women. Officials staging the raid believed they were rescuing the community's 263 children from a life of bondage and immorality. Kidnapped from that Land is the first book to bring together the story of the 1953 raid and two previous