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When you mix those two styles and weave them into tales with eccentric and unique people involved in unusual slices of life, it feels like someone is telling them to you around a campfire, even though you're reading the words in a book. That's a real gift and Ken Zurski has it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKen Zurski, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Wreck of the Columbia\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePeoria Stories, \u003c\/i\u003e provides a fascinating collection of once famous people and events that are now all but forgotten by time. Using a backdrop of schemes and discoveries, adventures and tragedies, Zurski weaves these figures and the events that shaped them into a narrative that reveals history's many coincidences, connections, and correlations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe tumble over Niagara Falls in a barrel, soar on the first transcontinental machine-powered flight, and founder aboard a burning steamboat. 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