William Augustus Conant
1816–1909
American railroad agent and hoaxer. Associate of P. T. Barnum. Collaborated with George Hull in promoting the fake Colorado Giant as a Darwinian missing link.
Sources
Tribble 2009, pp. 208–13
United States Federal Census 1880 (Santa Fe, New Mexico 40/18), 1900 (Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado 0031/12A) (Ancestry.com, accessed 19 September 2016)
U.S. Find a grave index, 1600s–current (Ancestry.com, accessed 19 September 2016)
Bibliography
Tribble, Scott. 2009. A colossal hoax: the giant from Cardiff that fooled America. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
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