Who is she you ask?
The year is 1901 and she is the first person to ever go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive. Note, not the first woman but the first person.
http://www.nfpl.library.on.ca/stuntuplo ... aylor.html
The above site says she was 46 years old at the time but she was actually an astonishing 63. See also this site:
http://panam1901.bfn.org/documents/pana ... taylor.htm
Follow the links at the bottom of this site and read about the Pan American Exposition held in Buffalo, NY in 1901. Since Lizzie attended the Chicago Worlds Fair in 1893 maybe she went to Buffalo in 1901 as well.
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I've been to Niagara Falls (to it; not over it) several times. There is - or was - a Niagara Falls museum. It should have had an exhibit about her there, but I can't swear that a man got credit for being the first to go over.
The last time I was there, they had this attraction - one of those rides where the seat moves and the subject seems real. They had theirs on Niagara Falls, and I read in the brochure that it makes you feel that you went over the falls. (I did not go in.)
The Niagara Falls Museum was real good. When they were - I think closing it, they found that one of the mummies on display there was really a famous one they had been looking for. Nephretite? (I am not a mummy major.)
There was a fantastic Houdini museum right on the strip (Canadian side). It had a lot of his stuff in there. It burned and that was the end of that. Some woman in CA owned a lot of the stuff, I heard. David Copperfield bought several pieces. I don't know how much stuff, if any, was destroyed in the fire.
The last time I was there, they had this attraction - one of those rides where the seat moves and the subject seems real. They had theirs on Niagara Falls, and I read in the brochure that it makes you feel that you went over the falls. (I did not go in.)
The Niagara Falls Museum was real good. When they were - I think closing it, they found that one of the mummies on display there was really a famous one they had been looking for. Nephretite? (I am not a mummy major.)
There was a fantastic Houdini museum right on the strip (Canadian side). It had a lot of his stuff in there. It burned and that was the end of that. Some woman in CA owned a lot of the stuff, I heard. David Copperfield bought several pieces. I don't know how much stuff, if any, was destroyed in the fire.