What is Annie Edson Taylor?
[[Image:Annie Taylor.jpg|thumb|Annie Taylor posing next to her barrel]] '''Annie Edson Taylor''' (October 24, 1838 – April 29, 1921) was an American school-teacher and adventurer. She was the first person to go over [[Niagara Falls]] in a [[barrel]] without dying. She did this on her 63rd birthday, October 24, 1901.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.niagarafallslive.com/daredevils_of_niagara_falls.htm |title=Daredevils of Niagara Falls |access-date=2011-04-30 |work=niagarafallslive.com |archive-date=2011-07-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723064351/http://www.niagarafallslive.com/daredevils_of_niagara_falls.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} * ''[[Women of Bay County]]'', [[Joan Totten Musinski Rezmer]] (ed.). [[Bay County Historical Society]]: [[Bay City]], [[Michigan]], 1980. * ''[[Queen of the Falls]]'', [[Chris Van Allsburg]]. [[Houghton Mifflin Books for Children]]. {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Annie Edson}} [[Category:1838 births]] [[Category:1921 deaths]] [[Category:People from New York (state)]]