Title: Promising the moon
Description: Two newsboys in 1830s New York sell copies of the New York Sun reporting that a powerful telescope has found exotic animals and structures on the moon. Based on a true story.
Subjects: Fiction, Hoaxes in fiction, Newspapers, Newspaper vendors, Newspaper vendors in fiction, Newspapers in fiction, Hoaxes, History, Children's fiction, Newspapers, fiction, Crime, fiction, New york (n.y.), history, fiction
Places: New York (N.Y.)
Time periods: 1775-1865