Title: The Cardiff Giant
Description: Briefly discusses the Cardiff Giant hoax in which people of upstate New York were fooled into believing that the petrified form of a giant human being had been uncovered from the ground on October 16, 1869.
Subjects: Cardiff giant, Antiquities, Forgery of antiquities, Swindlers and swindling, Juvenile literature
Places: Cardiff (N.Y.), New York (State)