WIVB-TV

Niagara daredevil, Annie Edson Taylor, recognized with handmade wooden doll donation

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) — The legacy of Annie Edson Taylor, one of the top draws at Oakwood Cemetery in Niagara Falls, continues to live on thanks to a special gift to the cemetery. A wooden ...
Local News 8

This Date With 8: October 24, 1901 — Annie Edson Taylor became the first to conquer Niagara Falls

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) — Today is October 24. On this day in 1901, Annie Edson Taylor was the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. A school teacher, with a school teacher's ...
The American Spectator

Annie Edson Taylor: All For Fifteen Minutes of Fame

People can be incredibly dumb. We expect some people to be immature. For instance, teenage boys tend to make idiotic decisions — partly because they are addicted to adrenalin, and partly because they ...
Buffalo News

FALLING FOR ANNIE ANNIE EDSON TAYLOR SOUGHT FAME AND TASTED THE BITTERNESS OF OBSCURITY WHEN SHE CONQUERED THE FALLS. NOW, 100 YEARS LATER, THE ...

Exactly 100 years ago, schoolteacher Annie Edson Taylor was the first person to shoot the Horseshoe Falls in a barrel. Though she lived to tell the tale, not many people were interested in hearing it ...
UPI

On This Day: Taylor is first person to go over Niagara Falls in barrel

Oct. 24 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1901, daredevil Annie Edson Taylor became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. In 1929, $5 billion in market values were swept away in the ...