https://americacomesalive.com/annie-edson-taylor-1838-1921-american-daredevil/ Quick Takes and Popular Postings about America's Past Sat, 15 May 2021 17:33:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://americacomesalive.com/annie-edson-taylor-1838-1921-american-daredevil/#comment-348399 Tue, 17 Jul 2018 16:00:04 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=5846#comment-348399 […] hop in the barrel and go over the falls, though. She did some testing before her jump, ultimately designing a barrel approximately 4.5 feet tall by 3 feet wide that gave her just enough room to fit inside along with […]

]]> https://americacomesalive.com/annie-edson-taylor-1838-1921-american-daredevil/#comment-337465 Wed, 28 Feb 2018 01:13:27 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=5846#comment-337465 […] read about other women who took on great adventures, read about Annie Edson Taylor, a school teacher who needed money. She decided the answer was in going over Niagara Falls in a […]

]]> https://americacomesalive.com/annie-edson-taylor-1838-1921-american-daredevil/#comment-238908 Fri, 30 May 2014 01:14:33 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=5846#comment-238908 […] Prior to the summer of S1901 she set about carefully calculating how the barrel needed to be prepared in order for her to survive. To read the complete story of Annie’s calculations and what animal she used for a test run, read the full story here: […]

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