Unremembered: Tales of the Nearly Famous & the Not Quite Forgotten

Peoria Magazines:
Over the last six years, [Zurski has] proven himself to be a remarkable historian, storyteller and writer. Marty Wombacher, Meanwhile, Back In Peoria…:
Ken has an impressive writing style that is equal parts factual reporting and conversational story-telling. 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.

Ken Zurski, author of The Wreck of the Columbia and Peoria Stories, 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.

We tumble over Niagara Falls in a barrel, soar on the first transcontinental machine-powered flight, and founder aboard a burning steamboat. From an adventurous young woman circumnavigating the globe to a self-absorbed eccentric running for President of the United States, Unremembered brings back these lost stories and souls for a new generation to discover.

FEATURING John Alcock Nellie Bly
Isambard K. Brunel Samuel Cunard Nathaniel Currier
Annie Edson Taylor Ruth Elder William Harnden Father Louis Hennepin Dorothy Kilgallen Samuel Langley Bobby Leach
John Ledyard Thomas Moran Catherine O'Leary William B. Ogden Fanny Palmer
Sam Patch Rembrandt Peale Cal Rodgers Amos Root
Janet Scudder George Francis Train Cornelius Vanderbilt Arthur Whitten Brown John Wise Victoria Woodhull