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In 1901, Buffalo, New York, the 8th biggest city in the us, wanted to start the new century with the Skillet American Exposition. It could showcase the European hemisphere and bring a huge number of individuals to Western New York. With Niagara Comes as a pulling credit card, and with stunning colors and electric equipment and lighting, promoters believed it would be bigger, better, and - practically - more fantastic than Chicago's White City of 1893. Weaving together narratives of both notorious and ignored information, Margaret Creighton unveils the fair's big tragedy and its lesser-known scandals. From a deranged laborer who stalked and shot Chief executive William McKinley to a 60-year-old woman who rode a barrel over Niagara Comes to two amazing acts - a little person and an elephant - who transformed the tables on the duplicitous administrator, Creighton unveils the myriad electric power struggles that would personify modern America. The Buffalo good declared the new century, however in ways no one expected.
