The Electrifying Fall of Rainbow City by Margaret Creighton

Author:Margaret Creighton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

It was during the third week of October that rumors out of Niagara Falls gathered steam. Soon enough, they had the heft of a news story and their strange, startling content began to captivate the country.

Annie Taylor seemed serious about sending herself over Niagara Falls. As her plans materialized, reporters started following her from place to place, and, as they did so, they scrutinized her more thoroughly. There were some things about her that did not seem right. Besides the obvious madness of her barrel ride, she didn’t look the part of a daredevil. She was a dancing teacher, she said, and an instructor in physical culture. Yet she was a woman of sturdy proportions. One paper estimated her height and weight to be five feet four and 160 pounds and went so far as to declare her “quite stout.”

Taylor explained that she was more flexible than she seemed. She was, she said, “able to bend forward and touch her nose to the floor without bending her knees with perfect ease.” She said she could turn cartwheels, and, up to two years earlier, she could “draw herself up on a trapeze and hang by her toes.” She did not demonstrate. She was, she explained, “out of practice.”

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