Step Right Up and Pay Your Respects to the One-Legged Jewish Tightrope Walker of Texas
In 1884, a man advertised that he would walk a tight rope suspended between the roofs of two buildings on opposite sides of the main street in Corsicana, Texas, some 20 or 30 feet in the air. More extraordinarily, it was revealed that he was a one-legged man with a peg-leg, notched to accomodate the […]