Title: American Goliath
First published: 1997
Description: A fictionalized account of the 1869 Cardiff Giant hoax perpetrated by George Hull, heir to a cigar fortune. On hearing reports that giants may have inhabited prehistoric America, he has sculptors make a huge statue, buries it on a farm in Cardiff, New York, and digs it up, claiming a find. Lots of people fall for it.
Subjects: Fiction, Cardiff giant, Forgery of antiquities, New york (state), fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Civilization
Places: New York (State)
LC classification: PS3560.A25 A8 1997