"If I thought there was a chance I'd be killed, I wouldn't attempt to shoot Niagara Falls in a barrel," Stephens had said. "I don't expect to be as seasick as I was coming from England on the boat." ...

Over a century ago, daredevil Bobby Leach hopped inside a fully riveted, 1/2-inch steel barrel for his trip over Niagara Falls in 1911. Today, after a forklift successfully situated the device at the ...

A man plunged at least 180 feet over Niagara Falls and survived — only the third ... most by using safety devices like Taylor's oak barrel or the foamed-lined pickle barrel and inner tube ...

the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Including multiple techniques helps to keep the reader engaged, she finds, especially for first-person storytelling.

Annie." Bobby Leach had told him he needed to test the barrel out before he tried it himself, but Stephen thought Leach was jealous and ignored the advice. "If I thought there was a chance I'd be ...